Warren Leight Quotes
I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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I wish I were big.
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Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.
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All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
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You'll never get my mind rightlike 2 ships passing in the night.
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My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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Pavarotti's is the best male voice, and Joan Sutherland had a big voice but also acquired great coloratura notes.
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You can call me whatever you want to call me, just keep hiring me.
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I'm always confident when I sign up for a project that it's going to be good. That's why I sign up for it.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Cuando no ando en las nubes, ando como perdido.
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There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
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I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about.
