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'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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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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I'm not a great writer.
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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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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
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I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.
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People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
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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.
