Richard Paul Evans Quotes
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
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'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.
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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
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People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.
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We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
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Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
