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'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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If a person finds that he doesn’t know himself very well, often he can rely on the help of another person who has known him and has been able to observe him over several years.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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I spend a lot of time with my characters.
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If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
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I don't remember ever having finished a book.
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You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
