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"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
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"Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back."
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"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
"One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again."
"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."
"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
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