- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
How Quotes
The questions behind every choice.
This set of how quotes covers a range of specific curiosities, from wondering how an R rating limits a film's audience to asking how a franchise could work without its signature character. Several reflect on the practical 'how' behind creative decisions rather than abstract philosophy. Related reflections continue in our About quotes.
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how important it is to have a home that's in order - that's peaceful.
- Myth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Wuthering Heights' is portrayed as a great romantic novel, and when I read it again, I thought, 'How is this romantic? All these people are horrible to each other!'
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.
- Production
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, I didn't have any idea of production or how things worked in footwear.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020