Edwin Catmull Quotes
We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths that lead to who-knows-where.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
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In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.
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Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion - everything.
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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
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An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
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Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.
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I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.
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The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
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I'm definitely more of a rockstar than anything.
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My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.
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There was a point in my teenage years, when we were starting to play bigger shows and females were running after tour buses and all that, and my mom - and I remember this like it was yesterday - said: 'Look, I want you to know that I couldn't be prouder of you. You are extraordinary. You move people. But it doesn't make you better than them. You still put your pants on the same way as them, one leg at a time every morning.' I thought about learning to jump right into them, just to mess with her. But what she said stuck with me, and I think it's true.
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. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths that lead to who-knows-where.
