Ed Greenwood Quotes
I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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I like the old words better. They're like old friends.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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Rock and roll is based on pretty boys who look like little girls. The girls love them because they're not threatening. As someone who is dark and kind of hairy and whatever, I said, "I don't have a chance with that." Luckily!
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Thrashing is a very recognizable human state. If you've ever had a moment where you wanted to stop doing everything just to have the chance to write down everything you were supposed to be doing, but couldn't spare the time, you've thrashed.
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All of us face challenges in our daily lives. Yet in challenges lie some of our greatest opportunities. As we recognize and act on our opportunities, progress, happiness, and spiritual growth follows. We need to be involved in moving the Lord's work forward. The opportunities available to us are endless.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
