R.X. Bird Quotes

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

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

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.

People probably assume I sleep in my uniform. Then I get up and go to the mall or the market in my uniform.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

I like being by myself.

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

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

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

I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

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

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

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

The natural environment is the great outpatient department where we can go for healing

When you have teammates just as talented as you, it's kind of weird to get all the attention.

I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

I really like the sound of analog things where clearly there's something being touched. You can sense that something is handmade. So much with digital, there's a disconnect.

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.