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" 'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home. "

" An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on. "

" Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. "

John Drinkwater

" A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters. "

Laura Anne Gilman

" Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic. "

" Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me. "

Kenneth Branagh

" Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you'll enjoy exponential results automatically. "

Robin S. Sharma

" Epic things happen in soccer. "

" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "

" For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic. "

" From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. "

" He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. "

Salvatore Quasimodo

" I'd love to do a comedic film. I'd love to do a very epic Shakespearian film. "

Morena Baccarin

" I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies. "

Michael Douglas

" If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" If you do approach a comics publisher, make sure it's one that publishes the kind of book you want to make. Don't take your literary fiction to Marvel or DC; don't pitch your Spider-Man epic to Image. "

Antony Johnston

" If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.' "

" I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts. "

" I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling. "

" I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on. "

Melissa Auf der Maur

" I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. "

" I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. "

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

" I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.' "

" I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary. "

Alice McDermott

" I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards. "

" I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling. "

" I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them. "

" It's kind of epic to see four women really be physically and mentally strong, in themselves and in their lives. That's what 'Widows' is. "

" I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic. "

Henrik Pontoppidan

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