Rebecca Makkai Quotes
We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
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No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
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It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
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The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
