Henry Selick Quotes
Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
Tariq Ramadan
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
Mallory Ortberg
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
Valerie Bertinelli
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
Zach Roerig
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
Ted Cruz
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
Patrick Lencioni
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
Daniel Dennett
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
Edna Ferber
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'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'
Edward Abbey
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
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Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
Nelson Mandela
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I'm loving every second working with the brilliant Kayvan Novak; it's a hoot from dawn to dusk!
Bradley Walsh
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Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.
Jacob Lew
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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
Andrea Barrett
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It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.
Jeff Ross
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You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day. I remember the first time we got off one of our first big tours, I told my guys, "Go home to your girlfriends." The next day, all my guys texted me like, "Do you wanna, like, do something? Let's all go bowling. I can't hang with people that live normal lives."
Lzzy Hale
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I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging.
Liam Neeson
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
Washed Out
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I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.
Rozonda Thomas TLC
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There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.
Henry Selick