"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 Quotes #Boys Quotes #People Quotes

“Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.”
“Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.”
“In practice it undermines the transformation of faith. When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions-whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian yellow-page businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes-they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel. Instead of being 'salt' and 'light' -images of a permeating and penetrating action-Christians and Christian institutions become soft and vulnerable to corruption from within.”
“I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?”
“This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.”
“It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'”

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