"I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write."

-- John D. MacDonald

#Writing Quotes #Reality Quotes #Color Quotes

“Eric, what are you doing?" "Snuggling." "Get out of my bed!" -Sookie Stackhouse, Eric Northman”
“There are people who follow me on Twitter and tell me how much they don't like me, how much they don't want me on the show, and that they hope I die. And it's not just about the character. They tell me how they've never liked Scott Foley, and that he's a stupid, white, plain-bread looking fool.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales.”
“I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.”

Source : Interview with David Gralnik, collider.com. August 25, 2009.
“I learn the lines and pray to God.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.”
“There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.”
“I didn't want to be an artist.”

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