Crawford Kilian Quotes
Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.
Quotes to Explore
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
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Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
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Cooking for my family is always a pleasure when I'm able to do it. My favorite thing to make is really whatever my kids ask for on any given day. It's more about being with them and doing something together.
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As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.
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A lot of people have said I'm the anti-Kim Kardashian and I'm all right with that.
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I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
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We need new partnerships for peace and security.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.
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Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.
