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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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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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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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
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My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'
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Sometimes I learn by someone giving me warnings and giving me advice about what to do next. And other times, a lot of times, I have to put my hand into the fire.
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For hevene myghte nat holden it, so was it hevy of hymself,Til it hadde of the erthe eten his fille.And whan it hadde of this fold flessh and blood taken,Was nevere leef upon lynde lighter therafter,And portatif and persaunt as the point of a nedle,That myghte noon armure it lette ne none heighe walles.Forthi is love ledere of the Lordes folk of hevene,And a meene, as the mair is, [inmiddes] the kyng and the commune.
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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.
