"I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start."

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Source : Jess Walter (2013). “Beautiful Ruins”, p.55, Penguin UK

Jess Walter

#Life Quotes #Real Quotes #Character Quotes

“The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.”
“I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.”
“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1870). “Ginger-snaps”, p.114
“[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].”
“I actually haven't been on many dates, but I like just chilling around at home and watching a movie with a girl.”
“A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.”
“Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.”
“It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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