"Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't."
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"I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream."
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"I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano."
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"Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from."
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"Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read."
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"I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent."
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"No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one."
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"In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write. It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual."
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"Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt."
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"No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth."
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"The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations."
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"Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please."
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"The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway."
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"Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical."
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"Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that."
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"I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart."
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"Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you."
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"Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome."
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"If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important."
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"I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to."
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