James A. Michener Quotes
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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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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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
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You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
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I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
