W. S. Merwin Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
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I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to fully commit to something.
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
