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Anthony McCarten Quotes

It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.

Anthony McCarten

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: 1961

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Impossible You Living Tell Arts

I know that it takes a coalition of individuals fighting against this very divisive agenda that the Trump administration and the Republicans are trying to push.

Jimmy Gomez

Fighting Push Trying Know Against

I have to admit, I go through phases of being good and bad. When I'm being good, I go to the gym three to four times a week. I do much better in a class with other people. I like aerobics and circuit training.

Joanne Froggatt

Good Training People Better Week

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

Steve Buscemi

Voice Think End Doing Out Original

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Story Musgrave

Poetry Space You Look Within Being

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different.

Tom Seaver

Value You Different Set Pitcher Put

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

Roger Rees

Talking Too Much Nobody Now Talk

When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration.

Mary Beard

I Am Looking Admiration Engagement

Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.

Judy Smith

Leadership Time Negative Face Think

One of my first bartending gigs was on Santa Monica Boulevard at Doug Weston's Troubadour, a very famous live music venue.

Jon Taffer

Live Music Famous First Live Music

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

Donna Rice

Opportunity Job People World Person

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Douglas Adams

Good Survive Book You Look Find

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Chris Cooper

Humor Think Kind Wit Capable Big