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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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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Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.
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A little showbiz never hurt anyone.
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My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.
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Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
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I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.
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Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
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Good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they’re in.
