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• The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.

  Richard Price

  War, Lying, Writing

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• It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

  Graham Greene

  Bible, People, Pity

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.

  John McNally

  Reading, Writing, Two

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• The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.

  Chris Evans

  Mother, Fighting, Voice

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• Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

  Jane Goodall

  Tree, Growing, Fruit

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• Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.

  William Friedkin

  Running, Thinking, Media

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Says No to The Exorcist in 3D". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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• You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and made and made - because there's a million ways to tell it and no two stories are the same.

  Jim Sturgess

  Two, People, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Love is not necessarily about grand gestures. It can be the little things, like someone knows you like a certain food so they pick it up for you. Stuff like that is sweet. It's little things that are nice and thoughtful that you can do every day.

  Emma Roberts

  Sweet, Nice, Thoughtful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wouldn't have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I'm so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It's just stupendous.

  Julia Roberts

  Smart, People, Interesting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I'm not conducive.

  Susan Sarandon

  Theatre, Sitting, Four

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing. Be intuitive enough to be shooting at the right moment, and when you're seeing the action happening just as you want it, shoot. And in the edit you have to go with your gut.

  Russell James

  Keys, Editing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're all complete individuals. They're not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.

  Andrew Bird

  People, Creative, Musician

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, People, Done

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.

  Dave Franco

  Guy, Brain, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.

  Richard Gere

  Skills, Play, Feelings

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one of those examples of unconscious bias: If you hire a lot of male journalists, they're more likely to pick up the latest Ian McEwan novel than the latest A.S. Byatt novel.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Facts, Males

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.

  Mila Kunis

  Views, Who I Am, People

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.

  Mila Kunis

  Fall, Acting, Four

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would come to photograph your work and you would just end up with this crazy material that had nothing to do with your work; maybe I'd pick up two or three photographs that were the closest to the idea. This is why when you look at the '70s, you see much less documentation and really bad material. The material will become misleading to what the piece was.

  Marina Abramovic

  Crazy, Ideas, Two

  "Marina Abramovic Explains How HBO and Lady Gaga Bring Performance Art to a New Audience". SUNDANCE interview with Bryce J. Renninger, www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Pick up a camera and start shooting. You need to wade in in order to figure out how to move forward and do something concrete. I firmly believe that a lot dynamic and revolutionary work flows from those who summon all of their personal energy and just go out and make something.

  Andrew Neel

  Believe, Moving, Order

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.

  David McCullough

  Mean, Interesting, President

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.

  Bun B

  Rapper, Two, Typical

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place.

  Karen Armstrong

  Believe, Fall, Games

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Being a military child, we moved a lot and we developed different vernaculars from moving from the south, to the Midwest, and seeing the world. Going from New York to California and from Jamaica Queens to the South, I was always the new kid, or had the army crew haircut. I expected people to pick up on me. My brother kinda stole all of my old jokes. He got his inspiration from me.

  Joe Torry

  Brother, New York, Queens

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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