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Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

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Tucker Max
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: September 27
Author
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Atlanta
Georgia
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Educational
Communication
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Wish

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Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't.
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Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.
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If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.
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I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.
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I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.
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My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
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Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.
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The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.
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I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.
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Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?
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I'm never going to be Tolstoy.
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I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.
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To my friends and people I care about, I'm a really nice guy. No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.
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You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.
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Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless.
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Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.
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You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.
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TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.
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