Ray Harryhausen Quotes
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
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Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.
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In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.
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I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.
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The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
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Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.
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Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them...
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After all meat is meat. I don't understand why so many people are bithing about it. It's very healthy and contains lots of vitamins
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I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that the songs definitely all have stories in them; it's just nice to let people decide what they are. I think it's important that people hear it themselves rather than having me annotate it.
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I thought, 'Everything is open for me. I can basically do what I want. Let's see how well I interpret this Lets see how well I pull this off.'
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Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can.
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Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.
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I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
