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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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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Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
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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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A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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There is no real way to prepare yourself for having a child other than just getting thrown in the deep end pretty quick.
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Anybody can be rattled. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, but at the end of the day, he is just a quarterback. It's not like he is God.
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The sharing economy is about making use of any idle resource out there. We do love seeing other sharing-economy companies flourish.
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Before the release of my film, small or big, the feeling is always the same.
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I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.
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My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
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Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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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.
