R. L. Stine Quotes
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality - it goes with the crowd.
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I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
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My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
