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-- Vartan Gregorian

#Opportunity Quotes #Self Quotes #Freedom Of Speech Quotes

“I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?”

Source : "David Hornsby Talks Unsupervised Season 1". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 19, 2012.
“I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.”
“If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2008). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.225, University of Chicago Press
“You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.”
“There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.”
“There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.”
“What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.”
“I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.”

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