Dan Scanlon Quotes
I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I played a waiter on 'Will & Grace,' a waiter on 'Medium' and on 'Weeds.' They all got cut out. I'm an awful waiter in real life. Maybe I was an awful waiter on screen, too.
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A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. And quality of life includes a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
