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.
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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.
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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.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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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.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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My first thought is always of light.
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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.
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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.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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In fashion, the minute you say, 'I am successful,' is the minute you are going down.
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I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.
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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.
