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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appropriate #cried #family #family values #feeling

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#dove #hand #hold #holding #i

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#dove #enough #flies #hand #hard

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

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career. ↗

— John Lasseter

#cartoons #could #dawned #had #i

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that? ↗

— John Lasseter

#always #because #cry #did #emotion

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. ↗

— John Lasseter

#audience #challenge #connect #does #entire

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

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. ↗

— John Lasseter

#animation #baby #big #computer #could

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. ↗

— John Lasseter

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