Dennis Green Quotes

It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.

Dennis Green

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• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Experience
  • Political
  • Blind

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Personality
  • Model

• People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

  

  Usher
  • Guy
  • Cool
  • Type

• Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Live
  • Women
  • Internet

• I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Real

• As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Me

• I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Day
  • Couple

• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Patience

• I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

  

  Imelda May
  • Bad
  • Movies
  • Loved

• I'm pretty boring.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Pretty
  • Boring

• Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Germany
  • Physical
  • Status

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • You
  • Street

• The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.

  

  Win Butler
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Rock

• In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.

  

  Frederick Reines
  • Peace

• I don't really understand it: in real life, I'm often so shy - paralysingly so - but when I'm performing, it's totally different. I feel free.

  

  Cressida Bonas
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Done
  • Career

• One seed becomesAn everlasting song, a singing tree,Caroling softly souls of slavery,What they were, and what they are to me,Caroling softly souls of slavery.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Tree

• I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Way
  • Small
  • Exercise

• It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.

  

  Dennis Green
  • Pretty
  • Understanding
  • Write