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Richard LaGravenese

American Writer

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When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that. Richard LaGravenese

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If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything. Richard LaGravenese

Living Writer Make Anything

Academy Awards don't really solve anything. Richard LaGravenese

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TV is where a writer can write his novel. Richard LaGravenese

TV Write Writer His Where Novel

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films. Richard LaGravenese

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I really like Rosamund Pike very much. Richard LaGravenese

Like Very Much Really

'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage. Richard LaGravenese

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My true nature, I believe, is writing. Richard LaGravenese

Nature Writing Believe True True Nature

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors. Richard LaGravenese

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The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show. Richard LaGravenese

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As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances. Richard LaGravenese

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The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her. Richard LaGravenese

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I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head! Richard LaGravenese

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I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing. Richard LaGravenese

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The South is like a foreign country to me! Richard LaGravenese

Me Country Like Foreign Foreign Country South

How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold. Richard LaGravenese

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In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire. Richard LaGravenese

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Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board. Richard LaGravenese

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A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer. Richard LaGravenese

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do. Richard LaGravenese

Director People Become Write Which Many

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories. Richard LaGravenese

Love Love Stories Romantic Stories Really Believer

We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you're lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that's what you call a long-term relationship. Richard LaGravenese

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Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn. Richard LaGravenese

Kid Bette More Bette Davis Davis Enchanted Than Even Watching

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