Andrew Stanton Quotes
Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.
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If you feel good about yourself, even putting a little bit of makeup - I don't usually wear makeup, but you know, someone said to me, 'Why don't you spend that extra five minutes to make yourself feel good?' And it's just a bit of self-care so you can go out and face the world, and I think we need that right now.
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Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.
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When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.
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There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.
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Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.
