Ellen Datlow Quotes
I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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Democrats hate success.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
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I think what's different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don't get something right on film, you can do another take, but on stage, once it's done, it's done. You can't go back.
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I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.
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If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.
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I never sleep before 4 A.M. and usually play 'Sonic the Hedgehog' computer games before bed. I like Sonic - he reminds me of Happy, my hamster that died. I used to stay up and watch Happy.
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I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
