David R. Brower Quotes

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

David R. Brower

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I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.

Ruth Rendell

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We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny.

Roh Moo-hyun

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You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

Michael Nesmith

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My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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I'm a kind of private guy.

Jason Reitman

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Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it.

Diane Kruger

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My parents were very calm about the photographers, the fans, and all that. But I understood right away that I hadn't done anything to deserve that attention. No matter what happens, it will be there. I didn't choose it. You just can't take that too seriously. You need to live your life. And stay calm.

Lily-Rose Depp

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I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

Len Goodman

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I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

Juliana Hatfield

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Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

Howard Gordon

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