Richard Russo Quotes

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

Richard Russo

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• My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.

  

  OMI
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Baby

• As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Dreams
  • Underdog

• I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Love
  • Nice
  • Obsessed

• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evidence
  • Weakness

• The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Culture
  • Mathematics
  • Belong

• I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Music
  • Things
  • Architecture

• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Sense
  • Word
  • Century

• My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Family
  • Amazing

• I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • School
  • Job

• I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Play
  • Stuff
  • Grandma

• It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • See
  • Place

• I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.

  

  Vijay
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Taken

• In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Music
  • Words
  • Audience

• Although I have won many times now, each time when I have a lead, I start to think about winning. It's very difficult not to think about winning. Every time, there are new challenges. Every time, there are new issues to overcome.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Challenges

• Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Show
  • Product
  • Strive

• My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Different
  • Real
  • Done

• I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Done
  • Feet

• It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Art
  • Attention

• Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice herself; everything that happens has equal significance. Nothing can be dispensed with. This is a common mistake that many people make: They think that half of nature can be destroyed - the uncomfortable half - while still retaining the acceptable and the pleasing side.

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Nature
  • Mistake
  • Destroyed

• Every child is different. I think it's important that we don't have maybe just one or two books that we're recommending to all children - but rather we cater the books to fit each individual child.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Different
  • Important
  • Children

• You know I'm a lady, but when you get me mad, I can be as hardcore as Sabu or Taz!

  

  Dawn Marie Psaltis
  • Knows
  • Mad
  • Hardcore

• The main thing in poetry criticism is that I have all these opinions, and I love having something to do with them. And I think it's important that people try not to be false. The ideal would be that everybody says everything in print. I don't know that it's that I'm not afraid.

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • People
  • Important
  • Criticism

• When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

  

  Richard Russo
  • Fiction
  • Everybody
  • Literary