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"I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest."
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"I had been writing professionally since 1988."
Writing
"I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf."
Trouble
"People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified."
People
"I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen."
Work
"I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project."
Health
"Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went."
People
"I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal."
Creativity
"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."
Hollywood
"I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book."
Time
"Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything."
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"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
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"Broke is a Hollywood term!"
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"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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