Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
I also have intense relationships with furniture. . . probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it. . . his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it.
When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them moved into suburbia, and started writing postcards to the FCC.
The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.
I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and profundity quite unmatched--have found their way into book form. No one tells these tales of young Ted, Mr. Geisel, and Dr. Seuss, and makes the connections between the three of them, quite like Dr. Pease.