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Julie Plec Quotes

When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on top of itself as opposed to letting things breathe and be languid in terms of the passage of time.

Julie Plec

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 26, 1972

Topics

Time You Want Kind Storytelling Top

My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

Jesmyn Ward

Family Water People Survive Help

As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.

Jerry Saltz

Journey Progress Performance Weird

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

Andre Previn

Music Cold Criticism Teach Matter

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

John Oates

Glasses Back Looks Awesome Well

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

John Ruskin

Strength Good Women Power Men

All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

Amitava Kumar

Good Art Kiss Free You Know

I'm very good at watching basketball and wearing basketball shoes.

Trip Lee

Good Shoes Basketball Watching Very

Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business.

Robin S. Sharma

Family Communication Business You

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

Ruth Wilson

School Me Face Thinking Thought You

I always have pen and paper with me.

Miller Williams

Me Pen Always Paper

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

Dennis Banks

Mother Healing People Look Earth Us

My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.

Chris Brown

Myself Me Voice Finding New First