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Tom Cruise on his lifelong learning about the art of filmmaking.

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From the group and team behind the viral hit "Cupid." The release of "Echo," their first song in two years, is a triumph over the courts, the music industry and haters who wanted to stop them from making music.

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[Cillian Murphy's] Oppenheimer was not so much a miracle as hard work. He lost 28 pounds to get the silhouette. Then he rose to the character step by step over six months, reading, listening to Oppenheimer's lectures and covering miles on the beach performing for [his dog] Scout.

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I asked your name. You asked the time. --"Lover, I Don't Have To," Bright Eyes.

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This is about an era of individualism. Everyone is fragmented, in America or Europe, but at the same time we’re connected by the internet. This magical technology should have made people happy, but we’re battling each other.

Hideo Kojima

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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

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Be Bold

Be bold. Name what you want. Give it voice and then give it action. Success is not guaranteed but commitment and courage are the only insurance we have. This is serious. Every day that passes is another day closer to looking back on your life and seeing whether you have done something meaningful. Don't let the days pass without doing something great. Be the architect of your dreams. --Jewel Kilcher, Never Broken

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Patchett on Optimism

"I have been accused of being a Pollyanna," [Ann Patchett] says, "but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people." --A Life in Writing

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Finding Out What You’re Good At

"Allan [Gurganus]’ lesson was how to work," [Ann Patchett] says. "We had to write a story a week, and a revision didn't count. He said think of yourself as a pipe with a lot of muck in it and you have to get it out. The only way you can find out what you're good at is to have written a ton of work. In the same way that if I was learning the cello I would understand that I had to practise hour after hour." --A Life in Writing

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Robert Whiting on His Writing Process

Don MacLaren: Could you describe your writing process? How do you put a book together? Robert Whiting: Search for a topic, one that asks a central question, like “What happened to the U.S. Auto Industry?” or “How does baseball reflect the Japanese national character?” Everything else will flow from that. Then start your research. Read as many books and articles related to the subject as you can. Interview as many people as you can who have had experience with or knowledge of the subject. As you progress, you may find the scope of your inquiry changing, which may require new areas of research and more interviews. You might have to go back and re-interview subjects. As you expand your base of knowledge you automatically refine and further develop your thesis—which should, by the way, always be reducible to one simple sentence. Then, about a couple of years in, you will reach a magical point in your research when you realize you know more than the people you are interviewing or those authors whose books you have been reading. That’s when you are ready to start writing.

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Tim Blake Nelson on His “Perfect Day”

“Let me tell you about my perfect day,” said Mr. Nelson, the actor, writer and director, as he sat at the kitchen island in his sun-splashed Upper West Side apartment.

“I get up at 8 with my oldest son, Henry, make his breakfast and get him out the door, and I’m at my computer by 8:30 or 8:35. I write until 11, work out on my rowing machine for an hour and have a quick lunch and my tea. I write until 2:30 when Henry gets home and we download his day. The other boys — Eli and Teddy — come in around 3:30, and I check in with them. And then about 5:30, I open a bottle of wine, take out some cheeses, and cook. We sit down by 6:30 and have family dinner.”

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Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Lawrence Kasdan

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Lawrence Kasdan on Making It Up

My favorite line that I ever wrote is in Raiders. Sallah says to Indy, “how are you going to get the box back?” And Indy says: “I don’t know. I’m making this up as I go.”

That is the story of everybody’s life. It happens to be very dramatic for Indiana Jones. Get on the truck, get on the horse. But for you and me, we’re making it up, too. Here’s how I’m going to behave. Here’s what I’m willing to do to make a living; here’s what I’m not willing to do. How we make up our lives as we go. That’s such a powerful idea, because it’s very exciting. It’s the biggest adventure you can have, making up your own life, and it’s true for everybody. It’s infinite possibility. It’s like, I don’t know what I’m going to do in the next five minutes, but I feel I can get through it. It’s an assertion of a life force.

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/lawrence-kasdan-qa/

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In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jan_L._A._van_de_Snepscheut

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Briony’s Journal

In the drawer of her bedside locker, she kept a foolscap notebook with marbled cardboard covers. Taped to the spine was a length of string on the end of which was a pencil. It was not permitted to use pen and ink in bed. She began her journal at the end of the first day of preliminary training, and managed at least ten minutes most nights before lights-out. Her entries consisted of artistic manifestos, trivial complaints, character sketches and simple accounts of her day which increasingly shaded off into fantasy. She rarely read back over what she had written, but she liked to flip the filled pages. Here, behind the name badge and uniform, was her true self, secretly hoarded, quietly accumulating. She had never lost that childhood pleasure in seeing pages covered in her own handwriting. It almost didn’t matter what she wrote. -- From Atonement by Ian McEwan

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Sarah Gerard on Reading

My reading habits are pretty rigid. I read for about an hour and a half in the morning, or maybe two hours, before I go to work. I get up around 7 and then I read. Of course I read every time I’m on the train, or waiting somewhere. I don’t have a very long commute anymore, but I used to read for an hour on the train when I was going to work at McNally Jackson.

The things I’m reading usually depend on what I’m studying at the time, for whatever thing it is that I’m writing.--Sarah Gerard in Electric Lit