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.
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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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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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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 have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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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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If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
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I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.
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Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
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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.
