Ralph Bakshi Quotes
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
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Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. They blend time and space. Many feature characters with dual identities like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Cartoonists also tend to live dichotomous lives because many of us have day jobs.
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I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our audience started to grow.
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Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
