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 can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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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I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.
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If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
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Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.
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I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
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Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.
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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.
