We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
If you looked in magazines. . . you never see me in those out-on-the-town pages. I'm either at home playing with the kids or I'm working.
It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.
You can fix anything but a blank page.
The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw a kid who was ready to flip himself out of the balcony, so I ran down and grabbed him and put him back in his seat. I remember the stage manager taking me aside and saying, "Can you please never do that again? I know you were saving his life, but we have you in the shot. "
I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.
Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.
Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.
I travel a lot. A lot, a lot. I don't have a single passport that doesn't have extra pages on it.