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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.
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Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.
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You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.
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I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.
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I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
