Richard L. Evans Quotes
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
Quotes to Explore
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
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A lot of superheroes today are a little self-righteous, and what's cool about 'Deadpool' is that he seems like a guy that you could meet at the 7-Eleven down the street.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.
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If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
