George R. R. Martin Quotes
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.
George R. R. Martin
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali
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I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
Mamie Gummer
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I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.
T. J. Perkins
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
Karen Bender
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
Saint Ambrose
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
Rachel Sklar
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.
Oscar Pistorius
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
Gary Shteyngart
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
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I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
Ted Danson
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There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
Damon Galgut
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'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Also special in my personal life, too. I made really good friends, and I had just a great time, and it was a great part.
Ken Marino
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Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
Marcia Gay Harden
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The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then a producer - because he's too valuable to simply be a writer.
John Rhys-Davies
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...the waiter has to come from a place of concentration, subjugation, and complete, limitless service. Nothing is too much trouble. The customer is always right, even when he is wrong. There is no limit to what you will do to serve while that person is in your bar and in your care.
Stuart Wilde
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I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.
George R. R. Martin
