Henry Selick Quotes
There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.
Quotes to Explore
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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Values are more important than money.
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I'm a big Stephen King fan.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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'Give us cash! I steal from the rich and give to the poor! I'm trying to be a myth; give us cash!' 'No, I'm not gonna give you cash.' 'Go on, I steal from the rich. Are you rich?' 'No, I'm … comfortable.' 'That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?'
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing.
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Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.
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I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.
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Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
Charles B. Rangel -
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
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Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
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Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.
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Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?
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There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.
