Eudora Welty Quotes
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
Quotes to Explore
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
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If I write the song, I get to name it.
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There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
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I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
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Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.
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I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
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I break ground. I trailblaze.
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When you're not being heard - I can't tell you what to do when you're not being heard. I do think there is a way to move in love and get things done, though.
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There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.
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I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
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There's a lot of spotlight that comes along with being the best in the world.
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Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and supported by your text.
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I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he just wanted to create something again.
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You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?
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Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
