#ck

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. ↗

— Gary Larson

#bluebird #chicken #depression #happiness #his

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ↗

— Gary Larson

#black #black hole #calendar #cartoon #daily

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. ↗

— Ovid

#burns #clean #lamp #oil #wick

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#central #conservation #environmentalism #innovation #makes

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#left #mix #politics #proper #religion

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. ↗

— John Lasseter

#also #art #art forms #cartoons #control

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story. ↗

— John Lasseter

#animated #animated films #animation #back #bad

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#audience #back #because #being #eventually

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#audition #ballet #basketball #before #dance

I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#black #different #fact #had #i