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Naomi Alderman Quotes

You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist.

Naomi Alderman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

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Discipline Think You Artist Way Get

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

Andrea McLean

Good Man Look House Need Interior

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.

Max Aaron

Looking Inspiration Jewish Up Those

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Stan Getz

Life Choice More Kid Radio Little

I have about 1,000 hours of myself on tape in a vault in Los Angeles. But I also have a photographic memory about my jokes, because they're really about me; they're my stories.

Louie Anderson

Myself Memory Me Los Angeles Jokes

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

Christopher Walken

Play Kind Actor Audience Between

We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we thought, but now we're back, we're going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too.

Ashley Jensen

Love Children Light Start Thought

It's nice to know to I have friends that truly support and believe in me, and to go back home and see those that knew me before all this happened.

Tiffany Hwang

Home Support Me Believe Friends Go

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.

Riley Keough

Sad Yourself Self Confident You

I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me.

Rima Fakih

People Me Looking Understand Up Lot

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

Norbert Leo Butz

Love People Find Way Narrative Take

I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it's tougher to be in your 20s because you're expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.

Nigel Cole

Life Think Feel You Living Mean

As an actor, you gain weight, you lose weight, you change your hair color, and you make changes physically and emotionally to be able to understand the character.

Lily Collins

Change Character Hair Color Lose