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Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#audience #burst #directed #film #heard

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#after #athletes #dedicated #helping #hip

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience. ↗

— Davy Jones

#actually #ago #days #did #experience

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England. ↗

— Davy Jones

#around #build #couple #england #here

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider. ↗

— Davy Jones

#challenge #couple #cup #i #maryland

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times. ↗

— Davy Jones

#bad #bad times #hear #reader #thing

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#actually #only #person #recognize #think

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#anything #book #close #dire #fantasy

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#acting #although #anything #create #even