Genre Quotes - Page 37

• Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read.

  Nate Kenyon

  Character, Successful, Suspense

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• I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Ideas, People, Inspire

  "SET VISIT: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - Part 2". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 18, 2011.

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• I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

  Sean William Scott

  Drama, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

  Thomas Frank

  Kings, Wall, Years

  "Wall Street Bonuses Are an Outrage" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2009.

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• There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

  Miranda Lambert

  Country, Land, Want

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• On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

  Avi Arad

  Judging, Going Away, Stuff

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• Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

  David Gemmell

  Children, Writing, Garden

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• Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.

  Félix J. Palma

  Cousin, Attitude, Literary Genre

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• Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.

  Michael Moorcock

  Character, Thinking, Unhappy Childhood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Passion, People, Trying

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• Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Genre Is, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "The third act of Steven Van Zandt" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• Overwatch doesn't just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.

  Brad Meltzer

  Together, Family Problems, Helping

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• I have never followed what people say it is 'fashionable'. I think that a woman must wear what fits her. That is why I created a style appropriated to my type and my artistical genre.

  Carmen Miranda

  Thinking, People, Style

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• As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

  Stephen King

  Character, Worry, Stories

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• When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Philosophy, Reality, Men

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• Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

  Avicii

  Viruses, Different, Music Is

  "Avicii's mix of EDM and country has given ravers a wake-up call" by David Renshaw, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

  Bella Thorne

  Inspire, Different, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.

  Tosca Lee

  Beautiful, Afterlife, New Orleans

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• For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.

  James Patrick Kelly

  Writing, Adventure, Romance

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• Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great coming of age tale, compelling character, and a fast-paced plot. If his first book is any indication of things to come, then all fantasy readers should rejoice as a new master storyteller has hit the scene.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Song, Book, Character

  Interview with Fran Friel, amazingstoriesmag.com. March 22, 2013.

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• The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.

  Adrian Tchaikovsky

  Book, Character, Ideas

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• This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

  Christopher Rice

  Thrillers, Thriller Genre, International

  "Killer Company" by Christopher Rice, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2014.

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• The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

  Stanley Ellin

  Diversity, Fiction, Infinite

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• I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

  Mark Sheppard

  Thinking, People, Bizarre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

  Michael Shannon

  Silly, Roles, Kind

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