Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.
Nina: [on the phone] He picked me, mommy! I'm the new swan queen!
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.
The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.
When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.
I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.
I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.
If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
