Edwin Catmull Quotes
Good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they’re in.
Quotes to Explore
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
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You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again.
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I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.
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I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.
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I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
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Good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they’re in.
