Steve Whitmire (Steven Lawrence Whitmire) Quotes
I don’t really think of myself as a voice person per se. I always came at this from the puppetry side and I was fascinating by how the puppets work. The voices were a byproduct of that.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.
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You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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I wanted to update the American people on what we know about the situation in Japan, what we’re doing to support American citizens and the safety of our own nuclear energy, and how we are helping the Japanese people contain the damage, recover and rebuild.
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To stand out in the crowd I liked the color purple.
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I love Barcelona. Barcelona is a very, very nice city.
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Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
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There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.
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Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn't that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.
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I don’t really think of myself as a voice person per se. I always came at this from the puppetry side and I was fascinating by how the puppets work. The voices were a byproduct of that.
