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You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

Nic Pizzolatto

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Nic Pizzolatto
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 18
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
University Teacher
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto
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The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
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I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.
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