Page One Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
— Joe Pantoliano
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They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in…
— Lou Reed
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The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page .…
— Jerry West
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When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I…
— Joan Didion
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Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns…
— Colin Greenland
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You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It's as simple as that.
— Richard M. Nixon
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Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. It's a no-win situation....
— Kim Williams
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The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child…
— Rosemary Wells
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I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve been looking for…
— Johanna Edwards
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I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is…
— David S. Goyer
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Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story unless that…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
— Zack Snyder
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Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page…
— Gillian Anderson
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Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty,…
— Joan Didion
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When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
— Gregory Maguire
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The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I…
— Viggo Mortensen
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It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.
— David Duchovny
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As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
— Mick Jagger
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Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.
— Rick Perry
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he's a story i want to know from page one
— Sara Zarr
Who Wrote These Page One Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Page One Quotes as follows: