"If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do."

-- William Zinsser

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“When I'm doing my best is when I'm completely focused... You completely wipe off any thoughts of the future, there's nothing going on in the past, you're just completely locked in on the moment, and there's no thinking, you're zoned in on this moment in time.”
“Dressage is when you put a dress on your horse. It's like putting on drag, but for horses.”
“If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.”
“Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.”

Source : The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.
“The movie that makes me cry isÂ Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will FerrelÂ I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan GoslingÂ could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child. Will Ferrell is a man.”
“The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.”
“In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.”
“I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.”

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