Paul G. Tremblay Quotes
The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
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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.
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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.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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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.
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As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.
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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.
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The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
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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.
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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.
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Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
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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.
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You don't need to retouch if you know how to light.
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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.
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I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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In my years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a business transaction.
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I want to be the jazz singer.
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The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
