"We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground."

-- Mark Twain

#Mom Quotes #Baby Quotes #Common Quotes

“Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.”
“...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
“I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.”
“In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.”
“Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.”
“Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!”
“when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?”
“The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.”

Source : "Reanimator". Interview With Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2001.

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