M. J. Rose Quotes
When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
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Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.
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I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either.
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If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
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The Opposition should be concentrating on opposing the government rather than involving themselves in endless speculation.
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
