Michael O'Brien Quotes
J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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I choose to express myself.
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I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
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Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
