Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
Quotes to Explore
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.
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When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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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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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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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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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
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Never let them see you in public after you've turned 35. You're finished if you do!
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
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I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
