Joan Tewkesbury quotes

The thing that's interesting about storytelling is people will say, "How do I write a movie I can get sold in this category?" For God's sake, the first movie that you can get made will be your personal story, because nobody's heard it before.
-- Joan Tewkesbury

#Writing #Interesting #People

As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job."
-- Joan Tewkesbury

#Jobs #Wall #Dancer

Maybe sometimes things come to you that you never, in a thousand years, would have included. But they strike a chord, so grab it. Trust your ability to know what's true to it and what would carry you off into outer space.
-- Joan Tewkesbury

#Years #Space #Sometimes

Sometimes the most important word is no. It takes the pressure off.
-- Joan Tewkesbury

#Important #Important Words #Pressure

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.