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"Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work."
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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."
"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."
"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."
"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."
"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."
"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."
"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation."
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"Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say."
"I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien."
"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"
"Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs."
"I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat."
"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art."
"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."
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