Genre Quotes - Page 34

• I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.

  James Durbin

  Past, Doors, Feet

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• I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Different, Cinema, Be Good

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• I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

  Billy Corgan

  Past, Tails, Coats

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• I'm not really a zombie genre guy, I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on to the whole thing.

  Noah Emmerich

  Walking Dead, Guy, Zombie

  "Q&A – Noah Emmerich (Dr. Edwin Jenner)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. December, 2010.

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• Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book.

  Brian Keene

  Book, Knows

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• Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.

  William Kent Krueger

  Evil, Understanding, Wish

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• Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Perspective, Fiction, Science Fiction

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• I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Book, Hero, Character

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• A rollicking good read-THE HUNTER is steampunk with a Wild West feel. Theresa Meyers is an entertaining and witty writer with a fresh, new voice in the genre. THE HUNTER is a fun-filled ride through a world of demons, vampires, and things that go bump in the night, and kept me turning pages until the very end.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Witty, Fun, Night

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• The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.

  S. T. Joshi

  Lovecraft, Masters, Imaginative

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• Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy. It's definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that's something people can relate to, and those genres are most successful when they derive the material from genuine fears that people have.

  Christopher Nolan

  Successful, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

  Nicholas Sparks

  "Nicholas Sparks, Miley Cyrus share a 'Last Song' love story" by Anthony Breznican, usatoday30.usatoday.com.

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• George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.

  Dierks Bentley

  Kings, Mind, Singers

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• I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

  Alan Furst

  Reading, Degrees, Eric

  "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.

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• I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Quarantine, Taste, Boundaries

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• A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.

  Nadia Abu El Haj

  Goal, Creative, Insightful

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• A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

  Vikas Swarup

  Artist, Fit, Great Art

  Vikas Swarup (2008). “Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.

  Jaleel White

  Being Yourself, Years, Fleeting

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• In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Thinking, Horror Genre

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• I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

  P. D. James

  Thinking, Order, Wish

  "PD James, Queen of Detective Fiction: Interview". Interview With Jake Kerridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 26, 2009.

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• Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dream, Dark, Trying

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• What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

  Jacques Audiard

  Genre Is, Use, Bigs

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• Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

  Danny Boyle

  Chance, Film, Ends

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• Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

  Danny Boyle

  Ideas, Different, Way

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Literary Genre, Speech

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