Patricia Polacco Quotes
I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.
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In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.
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The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
