Thomas Mesereau (Thomas Arthur Mesereau Jr.) Quotes
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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My parents did not encourage romances.
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I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
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Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.
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I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
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Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
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These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.
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Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.
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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
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Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed.
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Why did you want an addendum to what you had already written and signed?
