Nicholas Stoller Quotes
I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
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Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
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I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
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Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
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Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
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I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.
