Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
“Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.”
— Tom Clancy · Act
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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
“Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.”
— Tom Clancy · Act
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“Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.”
“The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.”
“The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.”
“I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.”
“I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?”
“There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.”
“A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.”
“For 'The Grey Album,' I'd been thinking about the good side of lying - lying as a kind of improvisatory act in black culture. Afterward, it nagged at me because there are those other kinds of lies that I think are all around us, and I was fascinated about hoaxes in general. So 'Bunk' became a natural extension of 'The Grey Album.'”
“I was born and brought up in Canada but I always wanted to come to India and act.”
“I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basically. All those people pulled together and helped get me started. Like, showed me how to hit my mark, made me do this, made me do that. That was my first long-running professional gig. And it was like, they were just - great, great with me.”
“I don't resent at all people saying, 'Oh, he's like a sweetheart'... but within comedy, it's a very funny way to talk about someone because it usually means they don't have much of an act.”