Marlon Wayans Quotes
My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
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One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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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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You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
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Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
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When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from 'Peter Pan.' I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script - and I ended up winning an award for it.
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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
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My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
