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"Fear of failure has always been my best motivator."
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"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."
"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."
"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."
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"Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case."
"When I saw The Player, I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience."
"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."
"Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining."
"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."
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