Menita Valenzuela Quotes & Sayings

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain
rigor and recklessness
simultaneously. — Carole Maso

We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Blue Sky to make a feature. But nobody is interested in a film that cost $50 to 60 million with the potential to do $120 million. They want to risk big money to make huge money. — Henry Selick

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time. — George Clooney

It might have been the seventies, but if you're old enough for a moustache you're too old for strawberry-patterned trousers. — Jo Wood

I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition ... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir. — Osman Baydemir

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time." - Tallulah Bankhead — Debbie Macomber

A sour religion is the devil's religion. — John Wesley

Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes. — Robert Genn

Sleep doesn't come to people who have a heavy apology resting on their heart. Sleep knows better. — Katie Kacvinsky

We lay down, and the pain let up.
We embraced, and the pain let go:
no more scalding regrets,
no scorching remorse
that oppressed the soul,
that weighted like a stone on the heart.
You, on top of me, heavy, immense,
and I, feeling so light. — Vera Pavlova

I don't mean your resentment toward them," said Philip ... "I mean your extending the enmity to a helpless girl, who has too much sense and goodness to share their narrow prejudices. She has never entered into the family quarrels."
"What does that signify? We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to. It's altogether a degrading thing to you, to think of marrying old Tulliver's daughter. — George Eliot

I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality. — Goldie Hawn

There may be a few differences in clothing and lifestyle, but there's not that much difference in what we think and do. Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers - passageways - for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. — Haruki Murakami

Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical. — Frederick Lenz

The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives. — Craig Venter