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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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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
- Ambivalence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020