Billy Lawrence Quotes
With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I'm not cynical.
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I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
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In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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I like Chanel mascara because it has the darkest black. For my eyebrows, I brush them through to keep them groomed and in place. And for my lips, I wear lip balm. I use Kiehl's Lip Balm #1. It's really helpful during fashion week. If I keep up with these three things, I feel like I look very fresh, young, and natural.
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I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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You hear too many guys talk about retiring too soon.
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I am fully conscious of how privileged a position I am in
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People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
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Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
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Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
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With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.
