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Nicole Holofcener Quotes

If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn't even know how to write that.

Nicole Holofcener

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: March 22, 1960

Topics

Behavior You Know Will Write Real

I like 'The Voice.'

Jimmy Iovine

Voice Like

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

Joe Lo Truglio

Yourself Talent Surround Yourself You

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Jennifer Armintrout

Good Good Health Health War Over

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

Maurice Allais

Parents Small Born Paris Grandfather

Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.

Jeffrey Kluger

Baby Mean Average Out Check Well

I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?'

Trinny Woodall

Morning Today Thinking Enjoy Want

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

Toni Braxton

Men I Am Sex Sleeping Up Fed Up

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Roman Polanski

You Cinema Forget Movies Sitting

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.

Roy Harper

Beard Goal Shades Out Hanging

Needless to say, I don't want a woman working for me who's waiting for me to shoot myself in the foot.

Maryanne Trump Barry

Myself Woman Waiting Me Say Want

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music Storm Me Down Sound Notes

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Julia Glass

Art Purpose Reality Moral Creation