Arthur Slade Quotes
The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.
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Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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'We're not outside the world, yoz. You know? We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see?'
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The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.
