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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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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Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.
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I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.
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I'm so boring.
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The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
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I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
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When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.
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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.
