- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go Quotes
Quotes on moving forward.
These quotes are about pushing something forward - a producer's refusal to let a project go, and the long chain of approvals a show has to go through before it airs. Related reading includes Back Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Farms
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.
- Toys
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go to my house, it's not like I'm 5, but I definitely have a lot of toys and weird, tiny miniatures.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't believe I managed to go through a liberal-arts and theater education and take all these women's-studies classes and never have addressed that the 'Muppets' were all boys, except for one pig who was obsessed with herself!
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager, it was so exciting to go to an event, because I would get a blow dry. Usually, my mom wouldn't even let us use a conditioner because she thought it was bad for the hair.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.
- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.
- Naked
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020