The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: 1970 |
I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.
I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.

