Brad Bird Quotes
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
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Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
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When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.
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There is great freedom in simplicity of living.
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I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
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That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
