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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I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'
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The army of brokers, jobbers and other quaintly named parasites.
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Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.
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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.
