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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.
There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.
Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.
My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan
They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.
I recognise why I have such a strong inability to forgive certain people who betray me. It's chiselled in, like a name on a tomb stone.
Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.
Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.
I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.
Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.
A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die.
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.
Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy tickets about prayer.
I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.
She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's.
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.
Belief is so important in everything. You need to believe in magic. You need to believe in yourself. You need to believe in your family.
I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.
I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.
My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like it, but I have no choice.
When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.
Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?
You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.