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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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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new jobs: fancier title, higher pay, opportunities for advancement.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more cerebral than I want to be.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the 'Parks and Rec' characters.
- Captain
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we're talking about someone creating something new, those rights are fairly well defined (in the United States, at least) under existing copyright law. But then there's often discussion about the rights of people who produce works under work-for-hire arrangements, which can be far more subtle and nuanced.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superman has been my favorite character since I was six years old, and I have more comics featuring Superman than any other single character.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Banking now is like sending a letter: you send it, you don't know if it reached there. Ripple is more like sending an iMessage: you send it, and you immediately know.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020