Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.
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'You and I are real, Teddy, aren't we?' The bear's eyes regarded the boy unflinchingly. 'You and I are real, David.' It specialized in comfort.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
