Linda Woolverton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You decide.
-- Linda Woolverton

#Dream #People #Your Dreams
Even when I'm writing animation, I think of them as real people. I think of them as completely three-dimensional beings, even if it's a talking teapot. I don't think of them as one-dimensional drawn characters running around. Maybe that's why, to me, there's really no difference in writing the two - animation versus live action.
-- Linda Woolverton

#Running #Real #Writing
I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.
-- Linda Woolverton

#Thinking #Feminist #Accepting
I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.
-- Linda Woolverton

#Writing #Differences #Female
The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just go crazy. Then, over the years - it takes years to write these things, to make these things come to pass - there are many, many, many drafts. For Maleficent, there were at least 15.
-- Linda Woolverton

#Crazy #Writing #Years
For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy.
-- Linda Woolverton

#Writing #Boys #People
I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to.
-- Linda Woolverton

#Children #Grew Up #Theater
They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question. They're going to move around if you bore them. They'll actually leave. So you really have to be on your toes.
-- Linda Woolverton

#Children #Moving #Forgiving

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.
My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.
Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.
The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.
The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. Itâ€™s in our hearts.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Linda Woolverton famous quotes

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