Lilly Wachowski Quotes
We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.
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I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is we're trying to do for families.
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I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.
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I paint abstract expressions.
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We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
