Adam Fuss Quotes
Just do it until you figure out what you are doing. Then you do some more. Well, for myself I find that I need to do something again and again before I understand what it is that I am actually doing.Adam Fuss
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V. S. Naipaul -
To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
Ed Asner -
I need to work to feel well.
Edouard Manet -
We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
Dacre Montgomery -
I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
Larry David -
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
Larry Niven -
There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
Olivia De Havilland -
I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
Harold Hamm -
Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
Ian Mckellen -
My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
Ted Cruz -
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
Fanny Kemble
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On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
We find that other employees are very enthusiastic about their fellow crew members who have disabilities-or what they previously thought of as disabilities.
Carl Karcher -
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
Macaulay Culkin -
Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
Candace Bushnell -
You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
Zadie Smith -
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells
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I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.
Philip Glass -
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.
Dan Jenkins -
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Just do it until you figure out what you are doing. Then you do some more. Well, for myself I find that I need to do something again and again before I understand what it is that I am actually doing.
Adam Fuss