Carlton Cuse Quotes

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

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• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

  

  Verne Troyer
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• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
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• I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

  

  Damien Rice
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• A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
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• My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
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• Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.

  

  D. J. MacHale
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• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
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• Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

  

  Jack Lemmon
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• I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
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• My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

  

  Halsey
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• I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

  

  V. E. Schwab
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• Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

  

  Lionel Blue

• As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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