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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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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I like to think my accent isn't strong enough, but it's funny: I get people coming up to me in America and saying I sound like Mel B. She's from Leeds. They just hear a British accent and probably can't quite work it out.
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The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
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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.
