Felicia Day Quotes
What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when you're in a barber shop, somebody'll say, "Did you see what that Negro did?" A lot of people slip in and out of different terms effortlessly, and I don't think the thought police should be on patrol.
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The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
