Todd Solondz Quotes

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

Todd Solondz

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• With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Crazy

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Singer

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Religious

• I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Challenge
  • Stories
  • Characters

• I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Movie

• R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Soul

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Reading

• The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Alone

• I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the writer is at work even when he is simply looking out the window.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Remember

• A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Family

• The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes how do you deploy that talent in a way that minimizes waste.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • World
  • Together
  • Question

• Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever.

  

  John Grisham
  • Thanks

• The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Way
  • Task
  • Buddha

• There are no world-class players here, not at the moment, but we will in four years.

  

  Eddie Jones
  • Players
  • World-class

• Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Shame
  • Virtues
  • Freeman

• One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Victim