Paul G. Tremblay Quotes

The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.

Paul G. Tremblay

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• If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Challenge

• The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Country
  • Need

• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Hard
  • Novel
  • Keep

• I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Always
  • Pure
  • Sciences

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Writing
  • Relax
  • Profession

• It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Faith
  • Doing
  • Leap

• Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • You
  • Jeans

• There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Time
  • Family
  • Guy

• As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Government
  • Cutting

• Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • English
  • Independent

• The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • War

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • May
  • Free

• But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Art
  • Scary

• Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Marriage

• I think that the stigmas against model-actresses - and even just, like, entertainer, celebrity chef, and musician - those kinds of walls have been broken down, and you can do multiple things. So while I can, I don't see why I would stop.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Model

• You don't need to retouch if you know how to light.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Light

• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • People
  • Energy
  • Beginning

• You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row

  

  Eddie Long
  • Today
  • Wonder
  • Tomorrow

• We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Free
  • Fire

• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Rule
  • Breath

• The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.

  

  Paul G. Tremblay
  • Truth
  • Story
  • Horror