"I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it. They didn't make up timeless voices. They used their own. They brought nothing to the table, in other words. There was no alchemy. That's why a cartoon was so alluring, was that a human being went into a place and created this supernatural sound, or whatever sound it was supposed to be that was totally unlike their own, and did it in multiples."
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"As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy."
"It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact."
"We're on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens."
"The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen."
"For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other."
"Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it."
"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live."
"To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged."
"Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective."
"Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors."
"A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong."
"I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them."
"I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going."
"I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem."
"One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite."
"What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything."
"Death's long anabasis."
"I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him"
"I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models]."