Anne Sweeney Quotes
Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.
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We like to crystallize something in the audience's brain that makes them say, 'Hey I really want to watch that. I'm really interested in it.'
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At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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We can be tempted to make the life of faith a matter of mere sentiment, thus blunting its power to inspire a consistent vision of the world and a rigorous dialogue with the many other visions competing for the minds and hearts of our contemporaries.
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Our company has been very forward-thinking about digital technology and the opportunity that it gives us. As we move into a world where we have more and more devices at our disposal, that really means more and more opportunities for the Walt Disney Co. to reach you: through our entertainment, through all of our divisions.
