Annie Baker Quotes
I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.
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First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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I'm very wary of trust, you see.
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It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.
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When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.
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What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
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It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.
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You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world.
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I grew up wearing trousers and climbing trees.
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I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.
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My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.
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There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
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He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.
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There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
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The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.
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I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.
