Phil Collins Quotes
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.
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We’ve got to find a way to make the world work for everyone. Climate change is an issue that impacts that greatly by making it harder for people to live where they live, by causing disruptions, and lack of resources.
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I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
