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Noah Baumbach Quotes

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 3, 1969

Topics

Train Way Talk Directing Anybody

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

Life You Own Take Like Your

I've been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people's perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that's not what I am.

Andie MacDowell

Today Time I Am People Perception

It's because of women like my grandmother Roberta - women who have lived their lives fearlessly, on their own terms - that I am who I am. I'm grateful to have such an inspiring woman as a grandmother.

Women Grateful Woman I Am Own Lived

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all.

Father Never Office Engaged Anybody

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Time Aging Looking Worry Look Hide

I will always choose the dollar bill carrying a wildly fluctuating discount rather than the dollar bill selling for a quite stable premium.

Choose Selling Will Always Dollar

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.

Moment Day Poetry People Me Kind

I think what people like about people is when they live their life the way they want to live it, unapologetically, and if they're being true to themselves.

Life Live People Think Want True

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

American Month Read Cover Every

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Art Writing World Marathon Over

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Douglas Kennedy

Success People Embrace Celebrity Get

I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

Work People Me Writing Energy Weird

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