"I don't want to get pigeonholed, and I want to try my hand at anything that excites me. I'm not just a Disney writer."

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Source : "Screenwriter Kelly Marcel Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Disney’s Reaction to Her Script, 50 SHADES OF GREY, Leaving TERRA NOVA, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 22, 2013.

Kelly Marcel

#Hands Quotes #Trying Quotes #Want Quotes

“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”
“If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.”

Source : "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.
“Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.”

Source : "We All Start Out As Scientists, But Some of Us Forget" by Chris Mooney, Indre Viskontas, www.motherjones.com. November 8, 2013.
“As I see it, we are all connected and share a stake in our collective future. We are all part of a greater picture. I greatly encourage businesswomen everywhere in the world to take personal responsibility, stay connected to their own intuition and unique potential, work hard, deal with reality, but don't give up.”
“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”

Source : John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.”
“War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.”

Source : Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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