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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People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
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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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Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.
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I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
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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.
