Joseph Barbera Quotes
Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
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I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.
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The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.
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Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.
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Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
