Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

Kenneth Lonergan

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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Max Eastman

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Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.

Ana Navarro

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I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

Tony Gilroy

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I thought 'Twinkies' was just a word for 'cookies,' not a specific thing. They kind of scare me a little bit because they last forever.

Tove Lo

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My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

Tom Stoppard

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I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message.

Rod Lurie

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Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Rosalind Wiseman

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As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Mickey Mantle

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Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

Michael Specter

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I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

Lou Harrison

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I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

Joshua Leonard

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Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.

Jonathan Maberry

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