Carlton Cuse Quotes
I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I like to be against the odds.
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
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Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families.
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When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
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When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
