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“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

People Ideas Hate Asks Asking Queens Leeches Bogart

Author:Connie Willis

Source: Impossible things

“When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid”

Ifs Writing Stories Paid

Author:Horton Foote

“When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.”

Want Book Sometimes Hard Stuff Opinion Figures Critics Internals Get Over Critique Classmates

Author:Veronica Roth

“When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.”

Want Writing Trying Seems Cliche

Author:Dan Savage

“When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. But I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.”

I Can Character Film Young Actors Bits Criminals Bully Psycho Weirdo Flair Young Actors

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.”

Years Young Actors Television Hollywood Rings Agents Evening Young Actors

Author:Michael Caine

“When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.”

Young Actors Pressure My Time Sixty Seventies Young Actors

Author:Felicity Jones

“When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.”

Want Firsts Young Laughing Comedian

Author:Baron Vaughn

“When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds of risky behavior you stop once you feel death's cruel breath on your neck. I think that as a straight white man in particular, I was tempted to believe that I was immortal and eternal because, after all, in this culture, straight white dudes are the heroes of every story that you see or read about with very rare exception. So how could the story go on without the hero, you know?”

Thinking Men Believe Kind Culture Hero Behavior Driven All Kinds Exception Immortal

Author:John Hodgman

“When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.”

Trying Young Numbers Situation Too Much Player Team Prove Adverse Proving Yourself

Author:Andre Ethier

“When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.”

Young Reading Lost Poet

Author:Gregory Orr

“When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.”

Ifs Want Giving Should Helping Bigs Young Lines Advice Talent Produce Shoes Coaches Brands Should I Accessories Suppliers Young Talent

Author:Delphine Arnault

“When you're a young writer and you look at people praising a big hefty anthology that has uncovered a long lost genre, it can be disorienting to look inside it and think, "But what it's uncovered still isn't me. What does this mean? Do I not belong in this genre, or is there more of the genre yet to find?"”

People Thinking Looks Mean Long Doe Stills Bigs Young Lost Praise Genre Anthology Young Writers

Author:John D'Agata

“When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.”

Thinking Years Kind Said Dies Laughing Successful Being Successful Better Life Old You Happier Life

Author:Steve Wozniak

“When you're about three years old, you start to learn how to be manipulative. I know this from my own experience - I created this expression between sadness and dissatisfaction to get people to make me feel better, to get me presents. I created this face based on movies without even understanding it. I felt attracted to faces and body language. I remember I was always fascinated with why some people are considered beautiful and some are not. Everybody's got two eyes and one nose, but it's the small details. It is why we fall in love or why we want to kill somebody we haven't even spoken to.”

People Eye Beautiful Remember Fall Language Understanding Sadness Falling In Love Feel Better Dissatisfaction Body Language Manipulative Make Me Feel Better

Author:Nir Hod

“When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.”

Giving Heart Remember Perfect Mistake Break Giving Up

Author:Jon Bon Jovi

“When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously, when you're in a scene with somebody, you're supposed to listen and react - and that's a bit of a transition.”

Persons Bits Scene Transition Accustomed

Author:Jon Stewart

“When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.”

People Ifs Thinking World Might Acting Impossible Agree Reception

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“When you're acting in front of a camera, you can really give all of your emotions with your eyes so the camera can see it. When you're in voiceover, you can't do that at all. It's a lot tougher because you have to convey this emotion, and you have to have a lot of trust in the animators.”

Giving Eye Acting Emotion Over You Animator

Author:Joshua Rush

“When you're acting on TV, you want to keep it real.”

Want Real Acting Tvs Keeping It Real

Author:Ben Schwartz

“When you're acting you always want to come across as if you're not acting. For me, my take is always to have it feel like you're watching someone on film and that comes with a lot of preparation time.”

Ifs Want Feels Film Acting Like You Preparation

Author:Vince Vaughn

“When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.”

Stills Hard Fun Challenges Acting Hard Work

Author:Dakota Fanning

“When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"”

Believe Wells Real Acting Baby Arms Standing Ears Grey Wigs Standing There

Author:Jim Sturgess

“When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.”

Persons Acting Modeling Hangers

Author:Analeigh Tipton

“When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.”

Acting Behinds Safety Hiding Escaping

Author:Tamsin Egerton

“When you're acting, you're subjective; when you're a director, you're more objective.You're kind of watching from the outside and helping others, and therefore I learn my mistakes through others, and also my assets through others.”

Kind Helping Acting Mistake Directors Helping Others Objectives Assets Subjective My Mistakes

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“When you're actor, you have no idea how much work goes into pre-production. We're just sitting in our trailers waiting for someone to knock on our door to go to the set.”

Ideas Actors Waiting Doors Sitting Productions No Idea Trailers

Author:Jason Bateman

“When you're actually feeling a character and you're going through the real emotions, and you're not fake acting, that energy stays with you and sometimes you can't get it off for days. It just resonates in your body, unless you have some sort of release, whatever it is.”

Real Sometimes Character Feelings Body Energy Acting Emotion Your Body Release Fake Real Emotion

Author:Tinsel Korey

“When you're actually filming, there are times when you get access to places you'd never get to see.”

Access

Author:Elaine Cassidy

“When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.”

People Writing Art Film Stuff Deals Visuals Consuming Visual Art Art And Music Time Consuming

Author:Taika Waititi

“When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.”

Film Integrity

Author:Ted Kotcheff

“When you're addicted to heroin, there is only one thing you can do - go off heroin. But we're not going to throw away these phones, we're not going to throw away our technology.”

Technology Heroin

Author:Sherry Turkle

“When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.”

Creativity Solutions Frontiers Advancing

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.”

Ifs Mind Has Beens Prepared

Author:Dale Carnegie

“When you're afraid of failure you're more likely to do it.”

Running Afraid Of Failure

Author:Gordy Ainsleigh

“When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.”

Judgment Tasks Impress

Author:Amanda Palmer

Source: The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.”

Games Behinds Calling Aggressive Plates

Author:Jorge Posada

“When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.”

Left Talking Alive Fine

Author:Peter Milligan

“When you're all alone, love one another.”

Explanation One Love All Alone Love One Another

Author:Todd Rundgren

“When you're all in, you will know sweet vulnerability.”

Knows Sweet Vulnerability

Author:John de Ruiter

“When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.”

Knows Together Song Father Singing Grandfather My Grandfather Singing Together

Author:Terry Pratchett

“When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.”

Life Is Solitude Lonely Being Alone Feeling Lonely Downtown

Author:Tony Hatch

Source: So you want to be in the music business

“When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Heart Book Might Wanted Reading Imagine Touching

Author:Mizuki Nomura

“When you're alone you don't do much laughing.”

Laughing

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.”

Want Littles Said Home Can Do Easier What You Want

Author:Candace Bushnell

“When you're alone, you look at yourself more, it is kind of inevitable.”

Looks Kind Inevitable Look At Yourself

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.”

Trying Motivation Loses Inspiring Greatness Foundation Uniqueness Conform Norm Always Trying

Author:Dale Archer

“When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.”

People Trying Hard Jobs Jealousy Jealous Ambitious Supportive Get Jealous

Author:Squeak Carnwath

“When you're amongst people doing well it's so gratifying and spurs you to just keep investing in your job.”

People

Author:Lara Pulver

“When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.”

Actors

Author:Meryl Streep

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