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

• 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

• It's all about making sure kids can have access to educational opportunities... you may not need a necessarily traditional college environment, but access to trades and employment development.

  

  Aja Brown
  • May
  • Kids
  • College

• There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • Up
  • Night
  • Air

• Don’t you think it’s more important how you treat the person next to you?

  

  Erin Kelly
  • Think
  • Person
  • Treat

• If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

  

  Charlie Norwood
  • Up
  • May

• 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