Dean DeBlois Quotes
All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
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The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
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I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
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All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.
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The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours of the day With hourly love, is dimmed away - And yet my days go on, go on.
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But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.
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You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.
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The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.
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Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.
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To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.
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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.
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This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.
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This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
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All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.