Douglas McGrath Quotes
You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
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I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.
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I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.
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I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.
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I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
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You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
