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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Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.
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I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.
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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?
