Jon Favreau Quotes
I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.Jon Favreau
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci -
Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
Rahul Dravid -
I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
Yves Behar -
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
Imelda Marcos -
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
K. A. Applegate -
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
Olive Schreiner -
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
Larry Flynt -
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White -
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot -
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
Gary Bettman -
A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
Karen Duffy -
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde -
Obviously I like pretty girls, but I'm also looking for someone who can take control. I know guys complain about girls telling them what to do, but I think we all kind of enjoy it.
Damian McGinty -
By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
J. B. Pritzker -
I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
Naveen Andrews -
You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
Wayne Dyer
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson -
I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'
Vanessa Lengies -
I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.
Alex Pettyfer -
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
Walter Gilbert -
If I'm with people who are really positive and go with the flow, that's when the best ideas come out for me.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.
Jon Favreau