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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Been Circle Come Commission Contract Direct Doing Drama Dramas Means People Screenplay Small Society Which Who Write You

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When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.

~Eddie Murray

Topics: Contract Games Here Play Signed

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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

~Edmund White

Topics: Bizarre Contract How Main Matter Memoir Reader Tell Truth Your

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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

~Edmund White

Topics: Boy Character Class Contract Gay Generation History Instance Like Make Me Men Moment More My Generation Novel Other Own Reader Representative Social Social Class Story Think Wanted You Youth I Think

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If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

~Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Topics: Actor Came Characterize Contract Days Era Go Gone Got Hollywood Last Life Lucky My Life Now Privileged Put Say Studio Through Time Times Very Which Who Would

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I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.

~Elena Anaya

Topics: Because Being Camera Care Contract Front Go Gym Human Human Being Myself Never Role Take Take Care Try Unless

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The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Actor Afterwards Contract Dinner First First Thing Him Should Sign Take The First Thing Thing Walk You

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Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Any Bad Belongs Contract Discover Doomed Escape Grant Law Leave Legally Long Love Lover Marriage Married May Person Portion Quit Relationship Significant Sometimes Soon State Takes Time Unmarried Very Wants While Who You Your

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Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Also Between Contract Economic Highest Marriage Order People Political Romantic Simply Two Two People Union

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It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

~Elizabeth Marvel

Topics: Because Been Contract Defense Department Hired Interesting Me Quaker Radical Really

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