Top 62 Christy Hall Quotes
#1. Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.
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#2. I write because that is what I am supposed to do.
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#3. This life is full of signs, many of which find their way to you exactly when you need them most.
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#4. Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City ...
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#5. I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.
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#6. Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder.
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#7. Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.
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#8. Occupation: Writer
Occupational Hazard: Carpel tunnel
Solution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping
Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows
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#10. No.'
It's not a bad word.
And it is very important to use at times.
Practice saying it in the mirror.
It's empowering.
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#11. The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.
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#12. Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.
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#13. I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.
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#14. You are more ready and able to grasp at opportunity when your hands are empty.
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#15. Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.
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#16. A watched pot never boils.
It's the same with success. So? Throw that burner on HIGH and just keep on cooking. Dinner will be ready soon.
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#17. Airport bars are more like film sets, the bathrooms reminiscent of dormitories. Everyone is waiting to go somewhere, suspended in nowhere ...
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#18. I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.
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#19. I'm not gonna lie ... sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.
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#20. You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!
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#21. I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!
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#22. What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.
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#23. Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.
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#24. Because.
Everything
worth anything
takes time.
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#25. If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!
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#26. Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?
A: Explaining what that is.
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#27. I look out over my life and see a million question marks with only a few definitive exclamation points. I'm living for the next exclamation.
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#28. As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.
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#29. That moment when a knot forms in your throat, but you choose to throw your head back and laugh instead.
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#30. A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.
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#31. Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you.
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#32. You know you're officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water.
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#33. Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them.
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#34. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.
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#35. Give all that you can.
No more. No less.
Every. Single. Day.
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#36. I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.
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#37. It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.
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#38. Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.
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#39. I mean. You put puppies in a store front, I will stop and giddily stare. Every. Single. Time.
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#40. A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.
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#41. Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy ...
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#42. Every day in New York City is a test. Work hard and pass this test, you get a chocolate cookie. From a strange man on the subway. A man without pants.
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#44. If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.
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#45. It's hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I'm tired.
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#47. My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!
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#48. I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.
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#49. Those corrupted by the pursuit of power, despite another's attempt at unspoiled love, cannot be rescued from the darkness that devours the soul
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#50. New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.
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#51. She meant to write: "Is Christy here yet?"
Auto Correct turned it into: "Is crazy here yet?"
For once Auto Correct got it right.
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#52. If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.
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#53. Lost in New York City. Not that I don't know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going.
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#54. I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.
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#55. When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete ... you feel as if you could do anything.
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#56. Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.
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#57. I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson.
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#59. The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.
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#60. When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British accent is involved. Dahling!
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#61. I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.
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#62. Be what you are, all that you are. Wear yourself proudly. It will require that you draw a line, but that line in the sand is your courage.
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