Brad Bird Quotes
I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
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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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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million dollar independent film. I did a lot more physical work than I'd probably have to do for a two million dollar independent film with four months of training and stuff. But as far as the character's psychology or emotional life goes, I treat it just the same.
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Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
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Nothing would please me more than if they were released in the next few days, but I don't want to raise the hopes of people detained.
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Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
