Terry Brooks Quotes
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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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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
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A hard man is good to find.
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I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
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I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.
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It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.
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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
