Henry Selick Quotes
I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.
Quotes to Explore
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
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The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
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Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world’s most endangered class of animals; it’s been calculated that the group’s extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate. But extinction rates among many other groups are approaching amphibian levels. It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all freshwater mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys. If you know how to look, you can probably find signs of the current extinction event in your own backyard.
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Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.
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I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.
