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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My first real kiss was actually on the set of 'The Vampire's Assistant' with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation!
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.
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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
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I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
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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.
