Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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I want to be my own person.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.
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Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
