"If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact."

-- Tim Leffel

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Impact Quotes

“I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.”

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“We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.”
“No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.”
“One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.”
“To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.”
“Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.”
“Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.”
“I must repay the gratitude given by pretties.. I want to give even more happiness that I have received all these while”

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