Noah Hawley Quotes
I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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When in doubt, do it.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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I have lost a lot of clothes over the years... Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano's spring/summer 1993 show.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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The evil into which these philosophers have fallen is greater than that from which they sought to escape, because they refuse to say that God neglects or forgets a thing, and yet they maintain that His knowledge is imperfect, that He is ignorant of what is going on here on earth, that He does not perceive it.
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
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I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.
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For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
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We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
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We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
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We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
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I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.
