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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• I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • God
  • Faith
  • Know

• 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

• Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Work
  • Passion

• A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Spirit
  • Audience
  • Enthusiasm

• The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.

  

  Al Gore
  • Science
  • Action
  • Fire

• Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

  

  Mark Crispin Miller
  • People
  • Truth
  • Today

• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Stupid
  • Characteristic

• 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