Brent Runyon Quotes

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

Brent Runyon

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• The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Study
  • Matter
  • Analysis

• The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Sword

• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Dark
  • Minds
  • Dark Side

• I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I never read about photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Read

• Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Better

• I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Watch

• I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Me
  • Interested
  • Wants

• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Women
  • Right
  • Rather

• I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Risk

• I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Never
  • Determination

• If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Energy
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Good
  • Start
  • Skiing

• I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Working

• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Knowledge
  • Deep
  • Sincerity

• No, to produce ideas you don't have to be a saint. And anyway there are very few true intellectuals. The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against every possible rival.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Ideas
  • Educated
  • Saint

• This might sound strange, but I've never really been a person who has goals of any sort. I tend to just work in the moment, day-to-day, try to make things and make decisions that feel good, and it tends to guide me where I want to go in the long-term.

  

  Ricky Reed
  • Person
  • Strange
  • Decisions

• Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

  

  Bob Taft
  • High

• But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Good
  • May
  • Father

• I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

  

  Brent Runyon