Marcus Sakey Quotes
The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.
Quotes to Explore
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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Nature hates calculators.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.
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Enough is enough... It's time to put country before party and say it together: Never Trump.
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That's one of the good things about being recognisable - if you need a quick escape, the cabbies will take care of you.
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Let who will scoff and revile – I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.
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The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.
