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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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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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 make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.
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I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.
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This is my heart - carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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The Democrats' foreign policy is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. The migration and foreign policy advocated by the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump, is good for Europe and vital for Hungary.
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A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
