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Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.
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Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.
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The record pretty much tells it all. We have to improve to get where we want to be. There's no science to it.
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I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.
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Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
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I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.
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We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know anything about, or hopefully don't know anything about. I think 'Banshee' gives people a chance to do that pretty safely because we all know there's a solid buffer between the show and reality.
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All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
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Kylie and I are both pretty brave - much braver than the Kardashians. We have the Jenner in us.
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When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
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If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.
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I travel pretty frequently, but a few things that are routine are going for a run, getting my green tea in the morning, and checking email... well, all the time!
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If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.
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Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.
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I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.
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It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
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There's a slew of actors that I'd love to work with. I'd love to work with Gary Oldman. He seems like not only a solid dude and a good man, but a pretty inspired actor.
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I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.
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Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.
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Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.
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What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?
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You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.
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I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.
