John Lasseter Quotes
When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.
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I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.
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Winning feels great, and everybody loves a winner. But the very best figure out what's coming next and don't assume they've got the winning formula forever.
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Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
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America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
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When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
