Will Barnet Quotes
I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.
Quotes to Explore
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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I love working closely with people.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
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I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.
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Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.
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Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.
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I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.
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You have to really be on your own side.
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I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.
