Joseph Barbera Quotes

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

Joseph Barbera

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• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Very

• In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Eyes
  • Justice
  • Equal

• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Political
  • Animal

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Book
  • Help
  • Free

• An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Would
  • Explosion
  • Wipe

• For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Electricity

• My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

  

  Ice T
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Black

• I call myself a geriatric starlet.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Myself
  • Call
  • Starlet

• I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • History

• A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Health
  • Diet

• It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Degree

• We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.

  

  Clifford Odets
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Business

• 'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Life
  • Period
  • Teenager

• I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • Trying

• I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Real
  • Done

• Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Time
  • Black
  • Lies

• I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

  

  Richard Roeper
  • Watching
  • Casablanca
  • Goofball

• Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Time
  • Work

• You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

  

  Joseph Barbera