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Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.


Katherine Dunham
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I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.


Keeley Hawes
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.
Sarah Zettel
I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
Malala Yousafzai
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I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.
Helen Oyeyemi
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I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.
Kim Edwards
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It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.
Michelle Paver
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The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.


Pete Hamill
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Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
Kurt Masur
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Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been standing by vehicles for an hour, and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently.
Spike Milligan
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
Hari Kunzru
I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
Raekwon
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Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.
Joan Didion
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I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.
Summer Phoenix
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Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.


Dylan O'Brien
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I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
Kat Dennings
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As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.
Prince Royce
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.


Naftali Bennett
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I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.
Fergie
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