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

• 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

• It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Day
  • Impossible
  • Almost

• You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Death
  • Die

• The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to dinner and tell him secrets of state, and his fellow-poets. The actual audience he gets consists of myopic schoolteachers, pimply young men who eat in cafeterias, and his fellow-poets. This means, in fact, he writes for his fellow-poets.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Work
  • School
  • City

• I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Differences
  • Bigs
  • Retiring

• 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