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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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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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 eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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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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I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
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Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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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.
