Quote by Richard Russo
My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired. – Richard Russo

Other quotes by Richard Russo

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill whats funny in the joke. – Richard Russo

Category:
funny
Read Quote

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, its because I really dont know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. – Richard Russo

Category:
Faith
Read Quote

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. Theyre about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels arent necessarily about that. – Richard Russo

Category:
movies
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
dad
category

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff. – Jason Bateman

Category:
dad

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. – Robert Rodriguez

Category:
dad

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that hes genuinely interested in what shes going through. – Harry Connick, Jr.

Category:
dad

My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal. – Chris Pine

Category:
dad

Random Quotes

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia. – NapoleonI

Category:
Health

Ive won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles. – Heather OReilly

Category:
cool

In my old age Ive come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself. – Bijou Phillips

Category:
respect

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Family