Joe Carnahan Quotes
I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.
Joe Carnahan
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
Samantha Bond
He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
Ed Wood
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
Abraham Verghese
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
Gabrielle Aplin
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
N. K. Jemisin
It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
Kate Christensen
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
Jose Saramago
I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.
Lena Olin
I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.
Joe Carnahan
