Moana Quotes

Every Disney heroine has an “I Want” song, in which they explain what’s missing in their lives. Moana feels called by the ocean. Tiana is “Almost There,” saving money to start her own restaurant. Belle wants “adventure in the great wide somewhere.” The tradition goes all the way back to Snow White, singing “Someday My Prince Will Come.” You can chart the progress of women in America by the things Disney heroines sing about in their “I Want” songs.

Ironically, this capitalist grab-bag approach, which underpins the race to monetise both digital devices and online technologies, mirrors the grab-bag approach to colonisation of the Moana.

Dropping flat,

Soaring through the sky, the hawk flew toward the

The TV was still on, but now they were watching Moana. The princesses had definitely gotten more badass since she was a little girl.

metal on metal screech outside. It sounded

selfishly looking

Kia hora te marino, kia whakapapa pounamu te moana, kia tere te Kārohirohi i mua i tōu huarahi. May the calm be widespread, may the surface of the ocean glisten like the greenstone, and may the shimmer of summer dance across your path forever.

Te Kā can’t follow us into the water….We make it past the barrier islands…we make it to Te Fiti.” She put Heihei in a basket. “None of which you understand because you are a chicken.

A maior parte da minha renda pessoal excedente ia para os bares na orla. Os turistas iam beber nos resorts de luxo, aqueles cujos nomes pareciam palavras mágicas – o Moana, o Halekulani –, mas Carter e eu preferíamos os de pior reputação. Gostávamos de nos sentar com os nossos amigos da praia e os surfistas, os aventureiros e os vagabundos, e nos sentíamos orgulhosos da única coisa que tínhamos a nosso favor: a geografia.

1) A “Ladies Who Lunch Party” thrown at the country club. Waiters carried hors d’oeuvres around, kneeling on the ground so that the little girls could reach them. The lunch was nicer than Jane’s wedding shower, possibly nicer than her wedding. 2) A “Movie Premiere Party” where the entire theater was rented out and the kids were allowed as much popcorn and candy as they wanted while watching a double feature of Moana and Monsters, Inc. (Lauren threw up in her bed that night.) 3) A “Camping Party” where each child received a sleeping bag personalized with her name and the backyard was set up with mini pink tents and paper lanterns. Someone was hired to grill the hot dogs and make the s’mores. 4) A “Spa Party” at the Four Seasons downtown where the girls got facials and fluffy pink robes and slippers. (Because what first grader wouldn’t appreciate getting rid of clogged pores?)

find Moana

Moana, their mother, went to L.A. to become a movie

If you let your eight-year-old watch Game of Thrones, I'm not going to judge you. But just know that Moana or Frozen just won't have the same kind of giddy-up once they've seen Khaleesi in sexual congress with King of the North.

into

with

She made me want to schedule my time better so I could devote the time to it that I’d originally intended. She made me want to pull her onto my lounge chair and ignore the hundred other people watching Moana. She made me want her.

I’m Moana… not Cinderella.