Fred Saberhagen Quotes
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
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I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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Remember what I told you about the blues? If you're not risking nothing, neither would they.
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I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.
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Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
