"As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks."

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Ralph Bakshi

#Running Quotes #Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?”
“It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.”
“Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.”
“Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse.”
“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.”
“What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.”
“I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.”
“If you're curious, London's an amazing place.”

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