Gale Gordon Quotes
My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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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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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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We always trend set.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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You can do anything your heart can imagine.
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I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
