Willy Mason Quotes
Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
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I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.
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You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.
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Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.
