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I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.
The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.
My earliest memory is trying to read Beatrix Potter, and the words were literally jumping off the page.
I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page.
I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to bake it!
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.
I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.
Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
I was the first Indian to be featured in the London edition of 'GQ' magazine and it was a six page story.
I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.
At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.
I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.
People just usually think I'm someone else. They'll look at me twice, and I'll just say, 'Not Ellen Page.'
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.
Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.
It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page.
When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.
I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.