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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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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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
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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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On the way back we were constantly under heavy shell fire and I had to double time them to get them through safely. There was nothing to be gained by having any more of them wounded or killed. They had surrendered to me, and it was up to me to look after them. And so I did.
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I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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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.
