Walt Disney Quotes
In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
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Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
