Quotes About Inspiration

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.

There's nothing like being a pitcher on the mound. You're by yourself. Ever since I was a little kid watching Pedro Martinez do it, night in and night out. I've always loved it.

I watched a little bit of Altuve - how he hits, the pitches that he hits.

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

When you're pitching movies, sometimes you know what the idea is, but you fully don't know the dimensions of it.

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing.

I listen to Zedd or Tiesto. I like listening to that type of music before I'm pitching.

I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh.

My dad was the one who took me to concerts and introduced me to new artists. One time, he drove me from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., on a school night to see 'U2' - he was a pretty dedicated Bono fan.

I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

I always think 'Pity the Child' is a goodie. And I've always liked a song called 'Heaven Help My Heart,' which is quite a corny number.

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.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

A lot of the album 'The Definition' was made from two things: Pixar movies and J. Dilla.

Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.

When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.

I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.