Joseph Barbera Quotes
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
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Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls... Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.
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Things can end badly, as they sometimes do in life. But if they do, then we know that something is wrong, just as we know it when a piece of music doesn’t resolve itself properly at the end. We know that. We just do. And so we prefer harmony.
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'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)
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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
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It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.
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You never find virtuosity for its own sake.
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Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.
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Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
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It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.
Colson Whitehead -
That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course a year later that's not the way it is. Life moves on and the picture stays. That can be a wonderful idea to be a part of history and on the other hand, you think pictures have a life that they don't have.
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Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
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Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
