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 don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
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There are things that we still need to do. There's certain things at stake and our guys understand that. Also, we need to keep improving as a football team. That's the mentality that this group has taken on. They understand that they haven't reached their peak.
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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.
