Gary Saul Morson Quotes
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
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I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.
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My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.
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I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
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Social policy that reunites father and child must always confront itself with the question, 'Are we paying dads to stay, or to go away?' If a single mother receives more money when the father isn’t around than when he is around, there will be fewer fathers around. The government will become her substitute husband.
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I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.
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Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.
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For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
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Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.
