"Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie."

-- J. Michael Straczynski

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.”
“But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.”
“Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.”

Source : Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.85
“Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.”

Source : "Book World: 'The Bridge at the Edge of the World'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2008.
“Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.”
“I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.”
“Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.”
“I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain.”

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