Andrew Stanton Quotes
I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
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Someone once asked me what my working timetable was like and when was the last time I went on a holiday. I said about 20 years back. I don’t work anymore, because I get paid to do what I like most. So it’s like a paid holiday.
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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.
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Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.
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I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.
