David Belasco Quotes
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
Quotes to Explore
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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I was an avid Pokemon card collector.
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When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!
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Every idea has its time.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I just write mechanical things.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
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For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
