Ralph Bakshi Quotes
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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You cannot change me; this is the way I am.
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
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That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
