Kevin Lima Quotes
I sat with the grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs at the world premiere of 'Tarzan,' and at the end of the film, he was very happy. He told me that we were bringing 'Tarzan' to a whole new generation, and he was very grateful.
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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I think it is important first of all that the president of the United States underscores our commitment to partnering with countries around the world, even though we're not intimidated by terrorist organisations.
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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Next time you're at a wishing well. Doesn't happen often. Next time you're at a wishing well ask to see the manager! Tell him you've been coming there for 10 years and none of your wishes have come true. Either you gimme my money back-or I'm shittin' in the well!
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I sat with the grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs at the world premiere of 'Tarzan,' and at the end of the film, he was very happy. He told me that we were bringing 'Tarzan' to a whole new generation, and he was very grateful.
