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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Film has to describe and show.
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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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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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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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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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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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I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
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My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
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“I transferred all my frustrations into a boundless love of sports. I climbed mountains, played soccer, Basque pelota, trained for distance running. I practiced team sports which is the best school to develop strength of character.
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I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.
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A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
