Shane Carruth Quotes
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
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I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much.
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Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
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The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
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They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.
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I just want to live in peace and quiet.
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I have two really great best friends that are the only people I hang out with. I keep a close circle.
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The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.
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The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?
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There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.
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It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
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I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
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When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.
