Benjamin Van Roy Quotes

Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.

Benjamin Van Roy

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• It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Past
  • Best

• I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Dog
  • Webster

• There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Weekend
  • Ranch

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Power
  • Woman
  • Exercise

• 'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • Three
  • Without

• Autumn grows old: he, like some simple one,In Summer's castaway is strangely clad

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Simple
  • Summer
  • Autumn

• To hear, one must be silent.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

  

  Jamelia
  • Up
  • Work

• I like anything sweet.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Sweet

• I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Confidence
  • Green
  • Blue

• My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Time

• There's a historical view that adding process into a scrappy start-up kills innovation, but I'm a firm believer that you need process at some point to remain agile.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Up
  • Innovation

• I make sure that I take good care of me.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Good

• With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Game
  • Hate
  • Attention

• In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Done
  • Career

• 'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Why
  • History
  • Political

• I don't think I'm afraid of anything.

  

  Louis Theroux

• A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Great

• I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.

  

  Michael Horton
  • World
  • Today
  • Church

• When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Animal

• Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.

  

  Benjamin Van Roy
  • Animal
  • Embarrassing
  • Anomalocaridids