Lee Gutkind Quotes
Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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No two wars are identical.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
