Jesse Kellerman Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!
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I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.
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People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.
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People are both more willing and less willing to talk to you when you're a writer.
