Wavy Gravy Quotes
I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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I'm not politically correct.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
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It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.
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Some of my favourite characters have been people like Masha in 'Three Sisters' and Elena in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
