George Horne Quotes
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.
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My first car was a 1999 red Mazda Protege.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised.
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Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle.
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You get to crack the code of the play. You get to really pick at it and see, 'What is the story that we're telling?' 'What are the clues in the text that I can find that will help inform what story we're telling?' It's almost like a detective mystery.
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Have faith in all that you make.
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I can never think about, 'Is this going to sell? Is this going to work on radio?' I just have to get in the zone where I'm like, 'Do I love this, or do I not love this?' Essentially it all comes down to that.
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It happens to people. People ruin things they love! I'm sure the guy who played Jar Jar Binks loved 'Star Wars.'
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You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work.
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Little guy with big dreams.
