When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
J. Michael Straczynski
Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's s... KRISTI YAMAGUCHI I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'G... NATE TORRENCE Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard ti... CHRIS MATTHEWS Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from '... NATE TORRENCE I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that w... DORIS ROBERTS I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its st... ISLA FISHER I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and... EMMA ROBERTS The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up c... SHERRY ARGOV I love Viola Davis. I call her 'Queen.' I think she's phenomenal. She's so raw and s... ANNA DIOP I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'... DAVE BRUBECK Wonder Woman isn't even American; she's an Amazon princess. JIM LEE There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite... OLIVIA THIRLBY My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri... DAVID BLAINE I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' beca... J. K. SIMMONS Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She ... MICHAEL PHELPS Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stand... GAL GADOT Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that in... NATE TORRENCE She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everythin... ASHLEY OLSEN Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking p... BERENICE BEJO A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She c... AYAAN HIRSI ALI Wonder Woman was my favorite superhero as a little girl. I still have a huge girl crush on Wonder Wo... EVANGELINE LILLY As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everyth... BJ THE CHICAGO KID Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't... MEGAN FOX My grandmother was a huge western fan. She'd have me watch with her. 'Shane,' 'Bonan... ANTOINE FUQUA I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a phys... JAIMIE ALEXANDER I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was... BLAKE LIVELY It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, an... BLAIR UNDERWOOD I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's s... AYELET WALDMAN I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a gre... ABIGAIL BRESLIN When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like,... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D... JOYCE MAYNARD Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... ANGELINA JOLIE It's like there's something very maternal about Wonder Woman: when push comes to shove, if n... PATTY JENKINS When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s... ELENA DELLE DONNE I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's makin... DOLLY PARTON What's not fascinating about 'Wonder Woman?' She's powerful. She's strong. She g... BETSY HODGES I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gai... DIANE KRUGER I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think... ERIC STOLTZ My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed... JADE JAGGER I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smarte... JIMMY FALLON Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's... DON BLUTH I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything. H. R. GIGER My life changed in 2005 on the day I met my wife, Tamzin. She was in a play called 'Breathing Co... TOM ELLIS When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in ... CLAIRE DANES Who directed the video 'No More Drama' for Mary J. Blige. I was actually kickin' with J.... NE-YO The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she... GAL GADOT They expect a certain amount of leniency or mercy from me because I'm a woman, and if you've... LORETTA LYNCH As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the ... GEENA DAVIS And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her. BRYAN FERRY When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally... TOM REISS I had a stunt double for 'The Bronze.' She's literally the most amazing human being I... HALEY LU RICHARDSON I'll tell you, Liz Cheney is going to be a very good candidate. I worked with her during the Bus... MARK MCKINNON I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seb... GILLIAN JACOBS Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they... ELLEN MUTH Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to ... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working i... GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real de... PATTY JENKINS For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald... WARREN G My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned fo... CANDACE CAMERON BURE I saw this cool interview with Amy Adams from when she did 'Enchanted' and played a princess... LILY JAMES 'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She... PETER MILLIGAN My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son... 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GELB I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting a... MICHAEL J. FOX I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes... MICHAEL J. FOX As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion MICHAEL J. TUCKER Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and... MICHAEL J. COHEN Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying a... MICHAEL J. FOX [T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu... MICHAEL J. SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin... MICHAEL J. SANDEL This is heavy, Doc. MICHAEL J. FOX In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. MICHAEL J. FOX What other people think about me is not my business. MICHAEL J. FOX I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j... MICHAEL J. FOX If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor... MICHAEL J. FOX Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. MICHAEL J. FOX You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a... MICHAEL J. FOX Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an... MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had... MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked. “With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Why are you here?” “Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN