Henry Selick Quotes
I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.
Quotes to Explore
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.
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People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
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And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
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Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.
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I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.
