"I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead."

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Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

Karin Tidbeck

#Writing Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Class Quotes

“My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.”

Source : Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.
“For a moment there I convinced myself I had my back against a wall, and suddenly the only wall I find my back against is that of a 10 by 10 writing shack in Glendale, where the summer days average between 90 and 100 and each song can be quantified in the sweat it took to write it. There is no ac in hell, and sometimes you've got to get down to get up. The train is gaining speed I should think.”
“In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.”
“I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!”
“Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get”
“The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.”
“At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.”

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