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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

John Irving

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
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Hatred Loneliness Self
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
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Ability Burden Feels
Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
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Scary Writing
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person – you have to know the difference.
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Character Differences Important
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
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Found Safety Viruses
It doesn’t really matter who said it – it’s so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.
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Matter Said Something Writing
In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.
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Believe Children Church
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.
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Majority People Population
…I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
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Doors Growing Long
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda – and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.
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Agendas Blind Presidential
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
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Obsessed Obsession Psychology
People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.
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Answers People Ready

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

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I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

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