Famous Authors

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
Eric Bogosian

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
Eric Bogosian

I’m always surprised by things that happen to my work.
Eric Bogosian

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs – and I’m not the first person to say this, it’s been said over and over again in literature – there’s a sense of normalcy.
Eric Bogosian

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it’ll all be forgotten.
Eric Bogosian

I don’t know anybody who does what I do. I’m very underground.
Eric Bogosian

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
Eric Bogosian

I write, but I also act.
Eric Bogosian

Ensemble is hard to do. It’s like 3-D chess.
Eric Bogosian

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
Eric Bogosian

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can’t quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that’s what the deal is with me.
Eric Bogosian

It’s a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I’m making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
Eric Bogosian

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that’s out there in the world, that I can’t seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
Eric Bogosian

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
Eric Bogosian

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I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.
Dennis C. Blair

The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.
Dennis C. Blair

High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country.
Dennis C. Blair

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.
Dennis C. Blair

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Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
Brad Bird

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there’s a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there’s a certain way that it happens.
Brad Bird

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren’t gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.
Brad Bird

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one.
Brad Bird

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don’t pay attention to how things move through space.
Brad Bird

Well I’m still working on The Incredibles. So I’m going to take a little time off. I’ve got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I’m not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
Brad Bird

But I don’t just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.
Brad Bird

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won’t win is to assume that you will.
Brad Bird

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.
Brad Bird

Look, it’s a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It’s meant to be a great time at the theater, but it’s also designed to work on more than one level.
Brad Bird

My kids love anime, but I don’t show them the really graphic stuff.
Brad Bird

Oh yeah, I’m still employed at Pixar and I love it here.
Brad Bird

Well what’s funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob’s hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.
Brad Bird

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
Brad Bird

And it’s not only films, I’m pretty unaware of anything that’s going on in popular culture right now.
Brad Bird

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.
Brad Bird

That’s not the part of the story that I’m interested in, anyway. The part that I’m interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
Brad Bird

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there’s some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You’re making it too complicated.
Brad Bird

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren’t dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
Brad Bird

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When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
Arrigo Boito

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Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
William Blackstone

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
William Blackstone

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
William Blackstone

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.
William Blackstone

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights.
William Blackstone

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
William Blackstone

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
William Blackstone

Free men have arms; slaves do not.
William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
William Blackstone

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Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn’t think I was in a position where people knew me well enough.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it’s a waste of time. I don’t believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

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I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.
Nuno Bettencourt

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn’t at this point want Nuno to open for them.
Nuno Bettencourt

There’s two facets to writing a song. There’s you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there’s the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.
Nuno Bettencourt

When you are in this business and this career, it’s hard for any one thing to engulf you.
Nuno Bettencourt

I think I’m a music fan before anything else.
Nuno Bettencourt

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it’s got green in it. I don’t know what the hell that was about.
Nuno Bettencourt

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.
Nuno Bettencourt

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.
Nuno Bettencourt

I am affected by what is around. I don’t think many people would admit that.
Nuno Bettencourt

As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it.
Nuno Bettencourt

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There’s a lot of older influences, but there’s also newer stuff too.
Nuno Bettencourt

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.
Nuno Bettencourt

I always imagine later on these songs I could’ve played with a band, but it never worked out that way.
Nuno Bettencourt

Obviously the biggest change is that it’s me by myself. When you don’t have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it’s bound to sound different.
Nuno Bettencourt

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can’t wait to go, but you don’t want to leave.
Nuno Bettencourt

It’s hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I’m in the studio and I write it. and that’s it.
Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
Nuno Bettencourt

Even with Extreme, I don’t think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.
Nuno Bettencourt

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?
Nuno Bettencourt

It’s just a bunch of songs. I’m not trying to cure any major disease.
Nuno Bettencourt

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Forward ever, backward never.
Maurice Bishop

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Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
Louise Bogan

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
Louise Bogan

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Louise Bogan

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Louise Bogan

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
Louise Bogan

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
Louise Bogan

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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia

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The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
Jean Bodin

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