Neal Brennan Quotes
The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I love writing songs.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
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There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.
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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.
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I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.
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When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
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I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
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Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.
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The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
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It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.
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The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.
