Judy Blume Quotes

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

Judy Blume

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• I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Different
  • Real
  • Friends

• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Nothing

• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Alone

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Sad

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Beginning

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Day

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Myself

• It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Focus
  • Tough
  • Butterfly

• We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Style

• In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • World
  • America

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Present

• Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Balance
  • Revolution
  • Creative

• The military is a group of people that come together from different perspectives and backgrounds and places and get a job done because they have a mission.

  

  Jason Kander
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

  

  Edward Eggleston
  • Interesting
  • Circus
  • Weddings

• There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Waiting

• I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

  

  Kevin Sorbo
  • God
  • Guy
  • Jesus

• First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Focus