Sarah Wayne Callies Quotes
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.
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I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.
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You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.
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Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.
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People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.
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I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
