John Millington Synge Quotes
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Quotes to Explore
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.
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Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
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Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.
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We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'
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The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch with a great deal in life, including our bodies.
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
