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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Time
  • School
  • Night

• Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

  

  Plato
  • Great
  • Done

• I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • People
  • Community
  • Bridge

• Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.

  

  Lawrence Welk

• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.

  

  Jill Hennessy
  • Dream

• 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