"With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know."

-- Steven Knight

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing”
“Do not go through life; grow through life.”
“Hi, Tad!' she said. 'Hi, Jeff! Hey, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?' 'Uh, no,' I said. 'We were just...I mean, Tad was...uh, nope.' 'So what were you guys talking about?' 'Well,' I said, 'it's very complicated. We were discussing...umm...hats. You know, hats. Like, the head kind.' 'There's another kind?' Lindsey asked. 'Hey, Jeff?' Tad said. 'If your mom needs any evidence to prove that you're retarded, let me know. I'd be glad to record you talking to Lindsey. I'm pretty sure that would do the trick.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2012). “After Ever After”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.
“To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.”
“When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'”
“I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.”
“My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.”
“There are all different kinds of ways to define a family, and we have to take that into consideration when practicing family law. The law, they say, is always the last thing to change.”

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