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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I enjoy my life.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.
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At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.
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Even if all the laws of psychology were known, one could make a prediction about the behavior of a man only if in addition to the laws, the special nature of the particular situation were known.
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I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.
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As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
