Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

Carmen Agra Deedy

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GreatImaginationVoiceLearnYou

I've always been athletic and fast.

Jimmy Graham

FastAlwaysBeenAthletic

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.

Jim Mattis

FightWarEndYouGoClearly

I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

Joe Arpaio

UpLockGuyEverybody

The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

BusinessDecisionRestaurantYouBad

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

Sloan Wilson

BeautifulWomanMeBeautiful Woman

You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music.

Roisin Murphy

EducationMusicSoulBetterAmerican

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

Roz Chast

HateTogetherParentsMeDoingBorn

The next big project, you yourself have to conceive.

Masatoshi Koshiba

YourselfYouProjectNextBig

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

Mohnish Pabrai

PeopleFreeThinkRealityYouWant

I would love a combination of action/adventure and... love. And stories told with heart. I would like people to be invigorated as well as moved. People to see the movie and see that. I love to play, y'know, well-rounded characters.

Dennis Haysbert

LoveHeartPeoplePlaySeeWell

I love directing actors. In the last few years, I have started expanding my directing into workshops for actors who truly want to grow and learn. My mom was a high school drama teacher, and teaching makes me very happy. My workshops are nurturing.

Del Shores

LoveTeacherSchoolHappyMeMom

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

Christian Kane

ActorBecomeNeverSingerUnderstood

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