William Allen White Quotes
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.
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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
