"I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff."

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Source : BBC Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. August 23, 2001.

Jane Espenson

#Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.”
“Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?”
“It sounds a little clichÃ©, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.”
“It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.”
“The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.”
“Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the Sixties, it was mods and rockers, and hippies and casuals, whereas in the early Eighties, there was Goths, punks, mods, skinheads, New Romantics, casuals, metal heads... the streets looked completely different. You go into town now and you can't tell one kid from another - you don't know what they're into. You can sort of tell a skateboard kid because his trousers are half way down his legs, but that's about it. Back then, people wore their hearts on their sleeves. It was a really bold time.”
“You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.”

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