Sam Abell Quotes
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.
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I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.
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I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.
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It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kill my career.' I can work on any record there is as long as they are good records and you're pushing things forward.
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Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't like them.
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
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If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
