- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
More Quotes
Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
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- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020