Andrew Stanton Quotes
I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.
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Weird Al was something that kids would listen to. It's funny, super funny, smart. It's just kind of jokey. I remember hearing 'Smells Like Nirvana' before hearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' That's how it really worked. I think it's just such a cool thing how he introduced us to so many cool bands. Even Queen - 'Another One Rides the Bus.'
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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
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I persevered, sustained, and continued to work hard and finally got my opportunity in Detroit, and I never turned back from that point. That's what made it so sweet to me to win a championship after what I went through. I had to scrap and fight to get through it, and to reach the pinnacle made it even sweeter.
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I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
