Shirley Henderson Quotes
I'm not going to get an Oscar at 30 - that's done. So I'll think of something else.
Quotes to Explore
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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Being God would be the ultimate.
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I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women - and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?
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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
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If you don't believe you don't belong.
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Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.
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I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.
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I really love stories about women.
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I don't really take myself very seriously.
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I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.
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Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.
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It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
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I'm not going to get an Oscar at 30 - that's done. So I'll think of something else.
