Ernest Borgnine Quotes
Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein – you know, popcorn movie.
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Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
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I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
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I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.
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The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and American general press is to defend Israel.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing – zero – to do with anything resembling fame.
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I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.
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You can get by in the foreign language, you can communicate, but the pleasure of speaking to those who understand every subtlety and nuance must make you want to cry with relief.
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Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.
