Bright Light Bright Light (Rod Thomas) Quotes
I really want to be able to work in cinema. So one of my long-term goals is to score films. I think probably horror – because that’s my favourite genre.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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So was victory turned into defeat, and Billy's jaw became squarer and his eye more full of the light of battle than ever.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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To something that looks very different. The thing to understand here is that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, they're not the disease and they're not the symptom of the disease. They are the beta test of a cure for the perspective of the people.
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Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.
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I really want to be able to work in cinema. So one of my long-term goals is to score films. I think probably horror – because that’s my favourite genre.
