Dawson Trotman Quotes
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about families. Things that happen in a house within a family, because you're a child or because you want to keep the family together, you suffer things you might not have had to suffer if you weren't in that situation.
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If you can't see very far aheadgo ahead as far as you can see.
