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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.


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Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.


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Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
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I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!
Isabelle Fuhrman
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The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus.
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Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.


Rob Delaney
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
Adam McKay
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I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.


Shah Rukh Khan
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.


Margaret Atwood
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.


I. F. Stone
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My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
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Every time I stray away from the Lord's word, I find emptiness and darkness.


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I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.


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Everybody writes a book too many.


Mordecai Richler
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Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.
Sander Levin
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I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.


V. S. Naipaul
For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.
Anna Friel
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