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Terence Winter Quotes

I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 2, 1960

Topics

History Myself Culture War City

I went to sleep away camp seven years in a row. I was such a pro.

Sleep Years Away Seven Row Pro

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

Relationship People Listening Saying

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

Space Think Division Wonderful Leg

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

Art Trying You Right Real Be Real

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

Believe Long You Run Own Successful

Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.

You Know Actor Hammer Out Guy

My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.

Mom Orange Conservative Arrow FBI

I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing.

Stephanie Courtney

Blues Kind Navy Low-Key East Coast

My pops, the whole time while I was growing up, was conscious of what we ate. He made sure we exercised and had time outside. He knew having a healthy lifestyle meant exercise.

Time Growing Up Exercise Healthy Up

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

Internet Trying Phone Lights Colour

I thank the Lord for having the kind of a career that doesn't happen very often to an individual. A lot of times when I was playing, I pinched myself to see if it was really me and if it was really happening. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change anything.

Change Myself Me Career Kind See

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

Family I Am People Looking Doing

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