E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up 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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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I have a great office.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.
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The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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What the world does not need is another script or television writer.
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I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
