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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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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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 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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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.
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Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.
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Tell the rabble my name is Cabell.
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It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
