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.Annie Baker
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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.
Orhan Pamuk -
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.
Eddie Redmayne -
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.
Tabatha Coffey -
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
Ted Turner -
Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
Val Guest -
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.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg -
To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
Randy Moss -
There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
Ze Frank -
I'm very wary of trust, you see.
Kristin Scott Thomas -
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.
Jenny Slate -
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.
Jeff Ross
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What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
Edward M. Lerner -
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.
Claudio Reyna -
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.
Kerry Stokes -
I grew up wearing trousers and climbing trees.
Vicky Krieps -
I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.
Mary Roach -
My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.
Mark Pincus
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
Tanit Phoenix -
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.
Christian Louboutin -
The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
Dylan Moran -
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.
Annie Baker