- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diaries Quotes
A diary promises honesty that a public statement rarely can. These quotes look at diaries from multiple angles: a filmmaker protecting the resonance of a personal project, a biographer questioning how much editing an old diary should survive, a writer describing the nightly discipline of keeping one, and a researcher combing through royal archives for unfiltered truth. Each entry treats the diary as both a private ritual and a historical record.
Consistency matters here too, much like the discipline explored in Always quotes about daily habits.
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- Motorcycle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.
- Good Old Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.
- Dialects
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
- Comb
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020