Andrew Stanton Quotes
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My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow. I want to be just like him.'
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.
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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
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What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.
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I think pets are a good thing, especially if you get them out of a shelter.
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I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
