Joshua Slocum Quotes
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.
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Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
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My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
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I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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And we're just all made of molecules and we're hurtling through space right now.
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I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
