"Plot and character are virtually the same thing."

-- Daniel Keys Moran

#Character Quotes #Plot Quotes

“Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.”
“a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.306
“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.”
“I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.”
“Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.”
“What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.”
“I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.”
“Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.”

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