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"Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs."

Jim Henson· b. 1936View quote →

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🇺🇸Tim Burton

Entertainment

b. 1958

"Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?"

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

"The people who worked for Jim felt like family and he treated them like family."

"Long ago, many of the small hells that took place in the camps right next to my house showed the joy of living, and tirelessly despite everything"

"Mr. Richard Corben... a genuine giant of his chosen medium.|Alan Moore"

"Toy Story 2 - Woody e Buzz alla riscossa"

"The work of Carl Sagan has been a profound influence in my life, and the life of every individual who recognizes the importance of humanity's ongoing commitment to the exploration of our universe."

"Matt Groening's Bio at Rock Bottom Remainders' Website"

"To link the far past, with the far future."

"It’s so satisfying, and when you see it on screen, you feel like God because you’re bringing life to clay."

"A zebra can't drive a moon-buggy. Or any other sort of car for that matter."

"It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world,"

"My favorite thing about Kirby’s artwork was his storytelling. He was really a film director doing comics."

"We are here to celebrate secular values, those values which we accept as Americans but have no religious basis: diversity, equality, charity, compassion, and reason, just to name a few."

"I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around. … Aliens are something everyone else is doing."

"But I do want to trigger emotions like his movies triggered our emotions."

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🇺🇸Patrick McHale (artist)

"I'm not one for the trappings of success. I drive a one-year-old Citroën Xantia and I hate shopping. I did have a share in a glider - that is as far as it goes."

"I love all the series I’ve done pretty much equally.I haven’t done a single series that I have been embarrassed by. Some of the movies are better than others."

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

"Forget the takes. Takes are cheap shots. Anyone can do a goddamn take. You don't have to be a genius to draw a take. It's emotions—the full range of emotions—that works in Clampett's cartoons."

"Twilight Over England by William Joyce - Online file of the book"

"You know, I'm not at all against CG. I really admire many films that are made, especially when they have such great design sense to them. I think that's so important, whichever medium. You use a medium for a reason."

"Your mind doesn't have one. If it did, it would only remind you of something when you could do something about it."

"Life is a winking light in the darkness."

"The Ymir and Kong before him are both creatures wrenched from their natural environment against their will and finally killed by man. Although these creatures must always die, they should go out with a touch of pathos."

"As Norman McLaren said, animation is not a bunch of drawings that move — it's a bunch of drawings of movement."

"Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say."

"Here we are, sitting in tuxedos and evening gowns, wearing borrowed jewels, and everyone's watching Shrek take a poot in the water."

"GreenCine interviews David Lynch, conducted by John McMurtrie"

opposition to copyright

b. 1968

"Archive of "Fluff" comic strips - Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0"

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🇺🇸Lorin Morgan-Richards

Literature

b. 1975

"I'm done adulting, let's be sharks that eat mermaids."

"The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us — can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred."

"The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution."

Notable Quotes

"A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive."

— Walt Disney, b. 1901View →

"I loved Jack's work and the first time I saw it I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He asked if we could do some freelance work together. I was delighted and I took him over to my little office. We worked from the second issue of Blue Bolt through ... about 25 years."

— Jack Kirby, b. 1917View →

"Your mind doesn't have one. If it did, it would only remind you of something when you could do something about it."

— David Allen, b. 1945View →

"If you're appropriately engaged w/your life, you don't need more time. If you're not, more time won't help."

— David Allen, b. 1945View →

"Before setting off for duty, the auteur cranked out an increased flow of comics, stating that he wanted “to get enough work backlogged that I could go into the Army, kill Hitler, and get back before the readers missed us."

— Jack Kirby, b. 1917View →

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