"Confusion is the first step toward clarity"

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Source : Syd Field (2008). “The Screenwriter's Workbook: Exercises and Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating a Successful Screenplay, Newly Revised and Updated”, p.134, Delta

Syd Field

#Confusion Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.”
“While the Christian message is increasingly becoming less acceptable in fashionable society, we must be always living according to Scripture and prepared to be apologists for Jesus Christ in all aspects of our lives.”
“Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.”
“A pun is the lowest form of humorâ€”when you don't think of it first.”
“Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.”

Source : "Love For Outsiders; Jacques Audiard On The Romantic Thriller 'Read My Lips'". Interview with Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. July 09, 2002.
“If I can convince people that their idea is great, and know inside that their idea was actually a little my idea, then I feel okay. I don't feel too douchey.”

Source : "The Showrunner Transcript: Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel on the Show's Transformation and Masturbating Time Travelers". Interview with Josef Adalian, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.
“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press
“We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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