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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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You have to have that organizational principle behind the song. Tom Verlaine
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger
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What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America. Rick Moody
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What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo
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What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
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Well, Terry and I broke up 10 years ago. So the healing that was going to happen, happened. So mostly this was a stroll down memory lane. Armistead Maupin
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. Lillian Smith
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People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. Jerry B. Jenkins
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Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from? Richard Hatch
characters inside love
Acting is my first love. There are still so many characters inside of me that are waiting to come out. Kim Fields
characters paint verbal
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying. Jonathan Winters
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Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore. Marc Guggenheim
characters matter
That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them. Kurt Busiek
characters relate
Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking. Issa Rae
characters life
I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit. John Searles
characters places worlds
I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different. Gale Anne Hurd
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We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.
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Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. Mark Boal
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The easiest way is to score points, but when you don't do that, there are other things you can do. Hustle plays like the tip-in or offensive rebounds on missed free throws, plays like that can make a difference, and they did for us this afternoon. B. F. Skinner
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It just sort of made it look like they were looking for the easiest target.
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It's not the easiest thing in the world. Your mind can wander but you can't be afraid. It's a good test of character. Ernie Els
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It's the easiest way to travel and the fastest.
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It was really like the easiest day of filming for us because we just had to stand there and watch, and all of the reactions were pretty organic. Paul Rudd
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There are many ways to get your voice heard. I find the easiest way is to be in a position like this one - the kind that you can more easily reach out to the largest number of people, and I like that.
simply
This is simply something you don't have right now.
simply strange
Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become. Rhys Ifans
simply together work
I think there is more work to do, and we simply have to all work together and do everything we can to get it done, Robert Rubin
simply talk
I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.
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I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.
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You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.
simply
I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level. Howard Hawks
speaking
Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half. Yoko Ono
speaking
Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take? Lucinda Williams