Mae Whitman Quotes
In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
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I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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Infidelity has always existed, but I feel like it was brushed under the carpet, behind the scenes. Now everyone is at it - and they've stopped pretending they're not.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.
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Spielberg is our hero. For him to make a nod to 'Godzilla' just before we make our movie is like getting the king to acknowledge you at dinner.
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I think for Wes Anderson and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.
