Neil Clark Warren Quotes
In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.
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Endangered species are our friends.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
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Henry Miller was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.
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It is natural to die as to be born.
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If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.
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In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.
