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- Nov 07, 2020
Drying Quotes
On creative burnout and small everyday moments
Drying up can describe a career, a creative well, or something as simple as coffee berries in the sun. These quotes use the idea in both literal and figurative ways, echoing themes from our care quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In TV, you get driven to work in a luxury car, and find flowers in your dressing room. Then suddenly you're on tour, drying your hair backstage on plastic curtains.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.
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- Nov 07, 2020