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Chris Renaud Quotes

We were going for simplicity with the Minions and, frankly, I think that's a huge appeal of the characters. They're essentially pills with goggles. A child can draw them quite easily.

Chris Renaud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Child Simplicity Think Going I Think

After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense city centers to fenced in suburban lots separated by broad highways.

Joe Gebbia

Trust War City World World War II

I do end up revealing a lot online, but in books, what I reveal is more tailored. Authors can couch revelations in fiction. With social media, no one wants to watch or read if it doesn't feel authentic, so you end up giving away a lot of yourself.

Jenny Han

Social Media Yourself End Giving You

I'd be very happy serving on a local school board. I just know that I have a responsibility to give back.

Andrew Zimmern

Responsibility School Happy Back

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

John Mellencamp

Song Think Authority Guy Only Who

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Rosalind Wiseman

School Cool Crazy You Go Talk

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

Joyce Meyer

Joy Happy People Me Doing You

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.

Conor Oberst

Words Spiritual Reading Language Him

I want to work on impactful projects.

Pranav Mistry

Work Want Projects

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

Peter Ueberroth

Government City Go Now Check Bid

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Sheri S. Tepper

Good Responsibility Me Book Say Who

The State has invariably shown a striking talent for the expansion of its powers beyond any limits that might be imposed upon it.

Murray Rothbard

Talent Limits Beyond Expansion State

I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.

Jamie Campbell Bower

Me Easy Talk Extrovert Stuff Loud