Joseph Barbera Quotes
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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.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
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For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
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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.
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I call myself a geriatric starlet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
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Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.
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'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
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I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.
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I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be 'American' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
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We need to work together to redefine the global image of beauty and continue to push for a more inclusive world.
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You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
