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Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

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• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

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• Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

  

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• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
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• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
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• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

  Quincy Jones
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• 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

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• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

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• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
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• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
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• You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.

  

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• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

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• Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
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• Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.

  

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• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

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• I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

  

  Clarence Darrow

• With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.

  

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• Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.

  

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• If you like reading, you are allowed to like to dance and to like to sing and to like to act.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Reading
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• I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Hurt

• Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

  

  Mary Garden
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