Nancy Gibbs Quotes
Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
Quotes to Explore
-
Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
-
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
-
I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
-
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
-
I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
-
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
-
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
-
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
-
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
-
I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
-
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
-
To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
-
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
-
I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
-
I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
-
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
-
India always inspires me.
-
When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!
-
I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
-
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
-
It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.
-
I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
-
I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.
-
Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
