Brad Bird Quotes
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.
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I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
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One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.
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Art is not meant to change the world.
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In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
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I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
