Christian Rudder Quotes
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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Value is what you get.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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You have good days and bad days.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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You write how you write, wherever you write.
