"So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet."

-- Molly Antopol

#Character Quotes #Desire Quotes #Machines Quotes

“As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Reesâ€™s dog.”
“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.”

Source : "Celebrities Who Have Battled Addiction", www.foxnews.com. September 2006.
“There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.”
“So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.”

Source : "Living the Abundant Life" by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. January 2012.
“I lived on Thompson Street in SoHo for 13 years and I watched it go from a little Italian neighborhood to the Mall Of America. Then the obvious fact that it's pre-Internet, pre-cell phone. Everyone I think thinks their youth is a more innocent time. I just don't know.”
“I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.”

Source : "Josh Fox: Activist and filmmaker" by Gerri Miller, www.mnn.com. May 2, 2012.
“I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity”
“To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.”

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