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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Can someone's true value really be estimated? Maybe there needs to be an Edmunds.com for people on TV. That would be funny and possibly cruel.
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We see China becoming an unstoppable force. It's a huge threat and a huge opportunity.
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Sometimes you can get stuck doing the same kind of thing over and over again, and then there's a certain moment in your life when you say, 'Wait, there's all this other stuff in me and all this other life.'
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In the Dominican, there are a lot of kids who need help. I just do that for my mom because my mom liked to help a lot of kids in the Dominican. Whoever I am right now is because of her. She gave me the education; she always took care of me like a mommy.
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Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
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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.
