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- Nov 07, 2020
Bits And Pieces Quotes
How creative work really comes together — piece by piece.
These bits and pieces quotes describe creative work as it actually happens — scenes shot out of sequence for television, scraps left over from comedy writing, notebooks full of unfinished journal entries. It's a look at Character and craft built in fragments rather than in one clean sweep.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - people no longer read 'The Wizard of Oz'; they think they know the story. They don't know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.
- Deep Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important that we're properly represented and for viewers to see all the bits and pieces of being a woman of color.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
- Footage
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- Nov 07, 2020
1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.
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- Nov 07, 2020