Lisa McMann Quotes

I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

Lisa McMann

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• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Money
  • May
  • Girl

• Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • You
  • Look
  • Open

• I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Me
  • Face
  • Helps

• But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Words

• People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • People
  • High
  • Fall

• He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Sympathy
  • Him
  • Maternal

• I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Never
  • Actor
  • Honesty

• Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Now
  • Describe
  • Skating

• I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Kind

• I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Water

• I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • University
  • Dissertation

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Best
  • Vision

• Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Story

• In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • May
  • Fall

• It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Childhood
  • Missing
  • Drawing

• The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • History
  • Culture
  • Media

• I wish there was an on & off switch for my brain. I think too fucking much.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Wish
  • Brain

• I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

  

  Lisa McMann