Nick Blaemire Quotes
The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.
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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
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Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.
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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
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I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.
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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
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Art is a way of life.
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I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason why Roald Dahl creates such brilliant characters: He taps into something in the collective memory of people.
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It's up to you now, and we shall help you - that my past does not become your future.
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I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.
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Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.
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The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.
