Nicholas Royle Quotes
I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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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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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
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I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
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Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.
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The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
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I want to reconnect to my animal life.
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I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
