Robert Littell famous quotes

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The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.
-- Robert Littell

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Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.
-- Robert Littell

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I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.
-- Robert Littell

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Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.
-- Robert Littell

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My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
An artistâ€™s job is to captivateâ€¦ if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

Robert Littell famous quotes

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