Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.
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I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
