Nunnally Johnson Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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Tell the truth.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I'm not a great writer.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
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I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
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If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!
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A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
