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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. ↗

— Allen Tate

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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind. ↗

— Channing Tatum

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