Deenah Bassiouny Quotes & Sayings

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency. — Joyce Carol Oates

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. — E.B. White

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain... — F Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed. — Dave McKean

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun. — Noel Coward

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door. — Ian Hart

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had no concern for how well he was received. He played whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He just wasn't interested in achieving the good opinion of his audience. That's the Holy Grail of acting; of any art form. — Trevor St. John

If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear. — Rumi