Pages Quotes - Page 31

• You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Writing, Fire, Caves

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• I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

  Jon Hamm

  Moving, Mean, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

  Josh Holloway

  Mother, Brother, Book

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• But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

  Taylor Hackford

  People, Directors, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

  Tayari Jones

  Real, Writing, Emotional

  "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

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• I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Writing, Trying, Should

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• I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

  Etgar Keret

  Fun, Grateful, Writing

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• The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

  Joanna Kerns

  Roles, Actors

  "'Growing Pains' Cast Reunion". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 7, 2006.

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• Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Writing, Character, Creating

  "Interview: Lisa Kleypas, author of 'Crystal Cove'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.

  Elvis Presley

  Romantic, Memories, Wine

  Song: Memories

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• Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Romantic, Love You, Book

  Song: Longer, Album: Phoenix

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• From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

  Hoda Kotb

  Dad, Cancer, Divorce

  Hoda Kotb, Jane Lorenzini (2014). “Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.

  Amos Lee

  Information, Too Much, Wikipedia

  "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

  Connie Nielsen

  Ideas, Scripts, Language

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

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• The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Reading, Skills, Personality

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

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• We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the biblical illiteracy comes as a direct result of a failure to recognize that the DNA of western civilization comes from a biblical worldview.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Biblical, Thinking, Dna

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Facebook Page

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• I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dream, Father, Writing

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• I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

  Francine Pascal

  Typewriters, Next

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• I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cutting, Two, Challenges

  ""The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson". www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  Ian Rankin

  Football, Cutting, Men

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

  Ali Smith

  Book, Finals, Needs

  "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

  Lara Spencer

  Kids, College, Nbc

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• You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

  Katey Sagal

  Jobs, Long, Done

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• On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

  Ken Salazar

  Country, Native American, New Relationship

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