Nick Park (Nicholas Wulstan Park) Quotes
We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.
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If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. (pg. 140)
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What you really want to know,” I say, “is how to make sure we all don’t just rip each other apart, right?” The fight earlier is way too fresh in our minds. We are a powder keg; just a spark will blow us apart.
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My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.
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I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier.
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People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
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We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.
