Pat Conroy Quotes
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
Quotes to Explore
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.
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I love poker!
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.
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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.
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She was lost in her longing to understand.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
