Page Quotes
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As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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Some memories are made out of the paper, they burn like a high school cigarette. Some leave without a “see you later”. Turn the page and pretty soon you forget. And others are made of concrete, others are made of steel. No, you can’t get away from the way they made you feel.
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Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.
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At first glance, you read something on the page and it can seem one way, and you can have your decisions before you wind up on set about what that set is supposed to mean, but until you're actually there doing them, there's really no way to understand it.
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I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.
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Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
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Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.
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Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
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Dipping a cockroach in ink and having it scamper around the page would have left more legible traces to the average reader.
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I took a page from the playwright Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'
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There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world.
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I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
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Wiki pages are very much free form. Across the whole wiki there is a hypertext structure, but on a given page, within the versatility of your command of your natural language, you can say whatever needs to be said.
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There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
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Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.
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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
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Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.
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Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
