Eleanor Clark Quotes

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

Eleanor Clark

• Writing
• Trouble
• Excitement
• Displacement
• Enlargement

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• Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

  

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• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

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• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

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• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

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• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

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• Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

  

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• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

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• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

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• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

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• Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

  

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• Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.

  

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• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

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• I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.

  

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• I love 70's music.

  

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• I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

  

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• Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

  

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• To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

  

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• I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Writing
  • Trouble
  • Excitement