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Conrad Vernon Quotes

When you work in animation that's all for a family audience, as an adult you desperately want to break out of that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 11, 1968

Topics

Work Family You Want Animation Out

I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

World Feel Touch More I Feel

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a either black gay or a lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works.

Jeremy Clarkson

Black Problem Television Gay Cheese

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

Science Great Me Book Reading Said

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.

Robert Motherwell

Time Walking You Find Go Three

The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have taken to switch the control of the House and stop the Bush agenda. The second priority I had was to provide health care for everybody. And the third was to do public financing of campaigns.

Health Time Control Care House Stop

Wherever I go, I buy shoes.

Shoes Go Buy Wherever

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

Success Good Great Childhood Value

I think sometimes when trades are made the beginning of the season on paper, they look great. It just takes time. Sometimes the process by the media or outside influences or sources want it to be now. Sometimes it doesn't work that way.

Work Great Time Beginning Think

There has been a stigma around letting movies be seen on home screens on the same day as theatrical screens. Universal said they were going to do it with 'Tower Heist,' but they backed off when challenged by the theater owners. I understand where the theater owners are coming from on big studio movies.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Home Day Said Movies Understand Big

The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.

Live Government Farm Authority Land

I'm more athletic than people think.

People Think More Than Athletic

Look, I'm a huge supporter of Obama's - he's the first president I ever donated money to. But I think in terms of climate change and the environment, he's been, at best, disappointing.

Change Best Money Think Look First

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