- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
- Beach
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.'
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I'm a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on 'Beverly Hills 90210' for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don't take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say 'no.' But 'no' in a positive way.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, I feel there's a Carrick style of playing.
- Training
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020