Kate Beaton Quotes
Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am."
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired, But he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, You will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along.
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The divorce in my family was really amicable. There were no fireworks. It was all sort of behind the scenes, if you will. None of us kids ever saw any argument.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
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I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
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Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am."
