Antony Johnston Quotes

My process is kind of intuitive - I think about how a character will speak according to their station and personality, occasionally making notes with guidelines for their mannerisms, and then I just sort of crack on and write it.

Antony Johnston

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• A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Understand

• People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Fear
  • Value

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • History
  • Violence
  • Laugh

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • End
  • Yourself

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Time
  • Character
  • Man

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Achievement

• Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Wealth
  • Ancient
  • Oil

• I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Fly

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• Our goal should be to understand our differences.

  

  James D. Watson

• If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.

  

  H. Burke Peterson
  • Words

• I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

  

  Rita Ora

• Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.

  

  Anthony Russo
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Action

• Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.

  

  Susan Straight
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Language

• My process is kind of intuitive - I think about how a character will speak according to their station and personality, occasionally making notes with guidelines for their mannerisms, and then I just sort of crack on and write it.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Character
  • Personality