"I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting."

-- Tony Gilroy

#People Quotes #Rewriting Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”
“But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!”
“Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.”
“We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.”
“You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.”

Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
“Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.”
“Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.”
“There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?”

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