Edwin Catmull Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
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I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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I just love math and most people don't.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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We never took a vote in the Cabinet that I can remember and the most important of all the Prime Minister's functions is to give a firm lead in Cabinet so that decisions can be taken quickly. The Prime Minister musn't always listen to those who talk most.
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The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
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If something just plain didn’t make sense to Alvin, he didn’t believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.
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Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.
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I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
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Emir said: 'This way everyone lives in a body of a kind for a while, and then leaves its body behind so that it can be remade for someone else. That's a very simple explanation, but it will do for now. Then all new life has a chance to live, and lots of room. Then we each take turns, so we can come back on new bodies when there's room available.
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Uncertainty and change are life's constraints. And that's the fun part.
