Rebecca Wells Quotes
I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.
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After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot down every single detail of the plot as bullet points per chapter, and only when the skeleton is complete do I start writing.
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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual and accurate and as unemotional as I could, and let readers make their own judgments on what happened. And, in fact, that's how I write poetry. I'm trying to present the reader with the experience itself, not with my commentary on it. So I adopted a style that I'd hoped would let me accomplish that.
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I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.
