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Shane Carruth Quotes

The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.

Shane Carruth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1972

Topics

Romantic College Comedy I Can Know

Somebody brought up the idea of reissuing 'Tribute To 1' because it was out of print on vinyl.

Jim James

Vinyl Out Up Because Idea Print

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

Jemima Khan

Experience Busy Key Working Hard

A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.

Andy Dunn

Time Moment Conflict Seeing Flaws

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Melissa McCarthy

Dog Believe I Believe I Believe In

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

Robert Morgan

Art Poetry Think Way Size See

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

Anna Faris

Work Women Great Challenge Me You

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Tracey Gold

Food Yourself Control Sick You Eat

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

Tracy Chapman

Me Sister Doing Early She First

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

Robert Caro

Power Political You Right Guy Only

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Michelle Dockery

Work Good Song You Forget Never

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

Mohsin Hamid

Mountain Me Writing Conquer Become

There are no unforgivable sins.

Miroslav Volf

Sins