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"Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release."
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"When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things."
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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
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"You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes."
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"Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work."
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"I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work."
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"When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it."
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"I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff."
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"I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested."
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"Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space."
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"My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time."
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"When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain."
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"I really do work in solitude."
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"It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens."
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"The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out."
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"The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story."
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"You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it."
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"Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy."
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"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."
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"Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction."
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