Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes
I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
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I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.
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I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.
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One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think they're making that into a movie too. I really want to be in that one just because the story is so beautiful.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.
