Frederick Bean (Tex Avery) Quotes
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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We all get self-centered.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
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At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
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Are you in my dream too?
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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I'm from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.
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The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.
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If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.
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Let's make some funny pictures.
