Richard Linklater Quotes

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

Richard Linklater

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BestStoryTryingYouKnowTell

If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

StarsHereWould

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

Andrew Sullivan

ThingsPurgeSheddingConstantly

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

Jeff Mangum

HomeMeSituationNothingWillLike

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.

Jeffrey Eugenides

BeautifulWritingThinkEndYou

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

WorldThinkingYouSurrenderWant

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

Simon Schama

LifeTruthChallengeSpringPeople

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

Ronnie Montrose

GoodTimeFireMeManagementOpen

I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'

Chris Pratt

YearDownCutAlmostTenPounds

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Chuck Knox

ImprovementPracticeWithout

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Anthony Bourdain

FoodThinkPictureSeriouslyBigger

I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.

Ashley Benson

GirlMyselfChallengeDarkComfort

Just getting to be a part of the 'Star Wars' universe is not something most actors anticipate as part of their careers.

Tiya Sircar

UniverseStarSomethingJustMost

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