Alex Scarrow Quotes
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.
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Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.
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We all die eventually. But the one thing we can do is seek answers along the way.
