Page Quotes
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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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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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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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My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
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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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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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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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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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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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There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.
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It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.
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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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I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
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The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.
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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
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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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There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
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There's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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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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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.
