Allan Guthrie Quotes
I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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In my heart, I'm so far from done.
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I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
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Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
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I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.
