Geoff Tate Quotes
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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I want to be my own person.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
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I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the number of great Pinot Noirs on one hand with change left over.
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At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.
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Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.
