"You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent."

-- James L. Brooks

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“Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.”
“A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone”
“To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!”

Source : L. P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (2002). “The go-between”, NYRB Classics
“Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.”

Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1996). “Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true,”

Source : The New Yorker, Volume 80, Issues 1-10, 2004.
“I want to live. I didn't have time to die.”

Source : "T-Boz brings reality to TV". Interview with Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2013.
“The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.”
“By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place at the right time. Go into it as young as possible. Bring all the asset you have and play to win.”

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