Pam Muñoz Ryan Quotes

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

Pam Muñoz Ryan

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Games

• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
  • Cooking

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moments

• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Know

• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • You
  • Never
  • Process

• Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • You
  • Respond

• I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Love
  • Me
  • Air

• I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Children
  • Healthy
  • Now

• If you're not in it you can't win it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Win

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Husband
  • Worried
  • Jealous

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Friends
  • Gay

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Music
  • God

• Without hope we live in desire.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Hope
  • Desire

• Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Desire
  • Love Is
  • Pretensions

• I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Desire
  • Excited
  • Grass

• This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

  

  Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • College
  • Desire