Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.
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I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
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I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.
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I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
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I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
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Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!
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I'm comfortable in the way I play and comfortable in who I am.
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Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.
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I've been writing since I was really young.
