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Academy Awards, Brad Bird, Endurance, Oscar, overcoming, perseverance, Persistence, Pixar, Ratatouille
I want to thank the Academy and I also want to thank my junior high guidance counselor for a meeting we had where he asked me, “What do you want to do with your life?” And I said, “I want to make movies.” And he said, “What else do you want to do with your life?” And I said, “Make movies.” And he said, “What if you couldn’t make movies?” And I said, “I’d have to find a way that I could.” “What if movies didn’t exist?” “I’d have to invent them.” And it went on like this till we were sick of each other.”
–Brad Bird, Academy Award acceptance speech, 2007, Ratatouille