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.
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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.
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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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.
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I never read about photography.
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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.
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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.'
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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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.
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I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
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I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.
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I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.
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I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard.
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
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It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.
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As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.
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I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!
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'The Silver Shoes,' said the Good Witch, 'have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go.'
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By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.
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[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".
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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.
