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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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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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 always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
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For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
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I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'
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To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
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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.
