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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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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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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I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.
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My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
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Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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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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The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.
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I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.
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I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.
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I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.
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We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not allow us to develop the full range of our relations. Therefore, we will naturally strive to sign this treaty.
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Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
