Mike Bartlett Quotes

What I've found is if you get the right characters in the right story and put them in the right setting - and let them go - they tend to do all the exploring of the issues for you. Because people are interesting and political and funny and sad.

Mike Bartlett

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At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

Jo Nesbo

BusinessTimeEconomicsFinancial

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

John Entwistle

WorkMyselfPeopleMeMoreUp

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Mel Gibson

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I generally like to stay fit.

Amy Jackson

StayFitLikeGenerally

It's more responsibility for star kids. Instead of having things easy, expectation is higher. They are compared to their parents, and that's unfair.

Sridevi

ResponsibilityParentsEasyUnfair

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

Mary Karr

StyleYourselfTryingYouChoose

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

Dito Montiel

FeelFindSometimesMoviesCrime

I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.

Dolores O'Riordan

DanceThinkYouIrishPlayingFour

Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.

Cornelia Parker

WorkLoveHomeSpacePeopleHouse

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

Brian Eno

MusicPeopleThinkYouNiceThings

Probably, subliminally, I think of the reader as a kind of collaborator. I don't want to say something for the reader that the reader could have said for himself.

Thomas McGuane

ThinkSaidSayWantKindSomething

I'm kinda not one of those people that likes to put up trophies in my house, because I don't want my mom to come be like, 'Hey, you're full of yourself.'

Thomas Rhett

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