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“In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.”

Writing Character Stories Action Term Differences Mediums Animation Good Story

Author:Michael Arndt

“What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”

Differences Lines Fine Strikes Just One Ingredients Success And Failure Fine Lines

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“I often hear that Gintama is very kind to losers. The thought that “a failure like me can still keep living when I read this manga.” But I didn't intentionally draw losers. I've been told that it's because I'm a loser too. Well, fine. But honestly, I think everyone's a loser. The only difference is the skin we put on. Once you open the lid and look inside, everyone's the same.”

Thinking Wells Looks Kind Stills Differences Fine Draws Skins Honestly Like Me Loser

Author:Hideaki Sorachi

“There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.”

People Giving Differences Chance Cases Saving Extending Save A Life

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.”

World Wanted Life Is Differences Making A Difference

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.”

Men Differences Hell Monsters

Book:The Final Descent

Source: The Final Descent

“I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.”

Thinking Men Passion Differences Creativity Men And Women Profound Likes One Love

Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

“I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.”

Needs Feelings Today Differences Wake Up Making A Difference Correctness

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.”

May Littles Moments Values Order Individual Lost Differences Results Events Battle Balls Importance Great Results

Author:Duke of Wellington

“There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.”

Humans Kind Use Social Differences Animal Moral Development Civilization Degrees Concern Entertainment Experiments Recognition Clothings Humans And Animals Moral Development

Author:Gary L. Francione

“There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.”

Eye Differences Painting

Author:Larry Poons

“The difference between the TAG Heuer watch and the Apple Watch is very important. That one is called Apple and this one is called TAG Heuer.”

Important Differences Watches Apples Tag Apple Watch

Author:Jean-Claude Biver

“Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.”

People Important Bigs Values Differences Negative Tools

Author:Shiv Khera

“I was listening to the guy that represented me in the state Senate, and I just got really frustrated. I called my wife and said, Ive always wanted to do something that makes a difference. So I ended up running and won.”

Said States Running Wanted Guy Differences Wife Listening My Wife Making A Difference Senate Frustrated

Author:Matt Salmon

“Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill!”

Differences Ill Cream Detroit Soda Cream Soda

Author:Danny Brown

“You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.”

Ifs Stills Differences Defeat Seeds Fortunate Temporary Dormant Temporary Defeat

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.”

Men Christian Christ Differences Common Pay Sun Worship Paid Adoration Parody Masonry

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.”

World Way Book Different Differences Views Cities Hero Normal Comic Make Sense Different Ways Comic Book Superhero Another World Prisms Gotham Gotham City

Author:Zack Snyder

“A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.”

Way Differences Function Fundamentals

Author:Scott Meyers

“What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?”

Author:Marisha Pessl

“Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.”

World Way Differences Unique Embrace Making A Difference You Can Make A Difference

Book:Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate

Source: Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate

“The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.”

Differences Successful Calling Errors Discovering Trash Implementing Free Living

Book:48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

Source: 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal

“The implication was that if you had any skepticism whatsoever, you were anti-science. I think there's a difference between having skepticism about science and having skepticism about the pharmaceutical industry.”

Ifs Thinking Differences Industry Skepticism Implications Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Industry

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.”

Important Shows Culture Social Differences Class Groups Influence Minors Hobbies Affirmation Reproduction Social Class Culture And Education

Author:Pierre Bourdieu

“Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.”

Differences Galaxy

Author:Alan Watts

“A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.”

Thinking Needs Games Differences Fundamentals Backgrounds Designer Impress

Author:Sid Meier

“Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.”

Want Writing Littles Sometimes Strong Bits Difficult Differences Pay Attention Little Bit Claims Academic Blogs Back And Forth Navigate Academic Work

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.”

Differences Birth Concerned Immigration Wages

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.”

Individual Differences Teach Karma Deception Individual Differences

Author:Neem Karoli Baba

“Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.”

People Ifs Two Able Three Differences Three Things

Author:Tom Rath

“But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.”

People Ifs Knows Way Humans Stills Two Different Matter Choices Differences Human Beings Forever Ought Easier Disappear Islands Divided Different Peoples

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.”

People Believe Stills Light Able Wanted Individual Differences Dark Dear Glasses Wounds Preserves Sheep Status Quo Spiders Handful Flocks Jars Inquisition

Book:The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

Source: The Twilight Watch: (Night Watch 3)

“There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.”

Men Firsts Heart May Spirit Differences Monsters Despite Latter Clothings Inward Filling

Book:The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance

Source: The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance

“Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.”

World Has Beens Facts Problem Differences Common Numbers Cold Grim Public Health Disturbance Psychiatric Health Problems Postpartum Depression Common Cold Economic Depression

Book:Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

“If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.”

People Ifs Stills Real Light Seems Sides Differences Animal Alive Being Real Leafs Silk Attending Iliad

Author:Alice Oswald

“There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.”

Differences Common Teaching Medicine Crafts Expertise

Author:Ben Goldacre

“What's the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Rick Perry? It only takes Lindsay four and a half hours to finish a sentence.”

Hours Differences Half Four Sentences Half Hours

Author:Jay Leno

“Texas Governor Rick Perry now says his wife has been encouraging him to run for President. Remember first he told us God told him to run; now his wife is telling him to run. Of course, the big difference; if you ignore what God says you don't have to hear about it until the afterlife. That's the only difference.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Bigs Running Remember Courses President Differences Wife Texas Afterlife Governors

Author:Jay Leno

“...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith in the future renders us receptive to change.”

Seems Causes Differences Attitude Spring Conservative Radical Receptive Fear Of The Future

Book:The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.”

People Thinking Sometimes Bigs Differences Company Opposites Making A Difference Cant

Author:Miles D. White

“When I gave up me, I became more. I became a captain, a leader, a better person and I came to understand that life is a team game...And you know what?...I've found most people aren't team players. They don't realize that life is the only game in town. Someone should tell them. It has made all the difference in the world to me.”

People Knows World Should Persons Made Life Is Found Games Realizing Differences Leader Player Team Towns Captains Gave Up Better Person Team Player

Author:Don Mattingly

“There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.”

World Use Certain Hours Differences Common Four Minutes This World Twenties Seconds Sixty Sixty Minutes

Author:Lou Holtz

“There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life.”

Way Persons Helping Can Do Differences Making A Difference Better Life

Author:Jimmy Wayne

“I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.”

Real Reality Differences Space Common Brain Modern Stage Empty Mediums Realising Intricate Homogeneous

Book:NO-MAN’S-LAND & Other Supernatural Stories (Mystery & Horror Series): The Watcher by the Threshold, Space, The Keeper of Cademuir, A Journey of Little Profit, The Outgoing of the Tide, The Grove of Ashtaroth, Basilissa & Fullcircle

Source: NO-MAN’S-LAND & Other Supernatural Stories (Mystery & Horror Series): The Watcher by the Threshold, Space, The Keeper of Cademuir, A Journey of Little Profit, The Outgoing of the Tide, The Grove of Ashtaroth, Basilissa & Fullcircle

“The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.”

Differences Leader Humility Great Leader Good Leader

Author:James C. Collins

“I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.”

Made Differences Psychology Taught Saved Impulse Aesthetic Primates Gorillas

Author:Arne Glimcher

“To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.”

People Trying Differences Bunch Making A Difference Texas Austin Cool People

Author:Bill Hicks

“There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.”

Want Giving May Hard Differences Figures Personality Giving Up Elements Anxiety Aspect Foresight Empathetic Pathology I May Not Be

Author:Scott Stossel

“... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.”

Stills Hard Funny Differences Humorous Determine Philanthropy Animosity

Book:THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY

Source: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY

“The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.”

Way Faces Choices Felt Differences Decision Iraq Reactions Life And Death Serving Between Life And Death

Author:Pete Hegseth