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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything.
- Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was like, 'Well, if I can't play practically myself in a movie, what can I play?'
- Nov 07, 2020
You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never actually sought out an agent or a publishing house. A friend of mine named David Simmer got wind of what I was doing, and he sent one of my books to a literary lawyer in Los Angeles. He loved it, and he sent it to other people, including an agent, and he picked me up, and that's how 'Bird Box' got to where it is now.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend 364 days a year surrounded by people who kind of are our family, but we never really get to meet them or break through with them.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would never put any growl on my voice in concert - it's not the kind of music I sing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
- Pet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020