Dan Scanlon Quotes
The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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We all knew the apparatus of justice had dissolved.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
