Malcolm Lowry Quotes
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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Many people are insecure of many people.
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How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
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I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn...
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I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn't do much. I was always thinking, but I didn't really say a lot.
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The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large amounts of money, Kickstarter's system relies on the general public for funding projects, and rewards those backers.
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American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.
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What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?
