Alex Ebert Quotes
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.
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You're able to get into somebody's brain through song.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism.
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It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
