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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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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I would definitely return to 'Neverland' for a sequel if there was the chance again because we all got on so well, and I think it will be great.
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Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
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A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.
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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.
