Kristin Gore Quotes
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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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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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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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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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
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In restaurants we argue over which of us will pay for your funeral though the real question is whether or not I will make you immortal.
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I have a staff of 12 people, so it's easy for them to handle all the management and the day to day at the company while I'm directing.
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I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.
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I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
