"You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier."

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Source : "THR's Writer Roundtable: Osama bin Laden, Why 'Schindler's List' Is Irresponsible and When Judd Apatow Was a Dishwasher". Interview with Matthew Belloni and Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.

Chris Terrio

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #People Quotes

“There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.”

Source : "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.
“Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.252
“It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.”
“I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.”
“The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.104, Harvard University Press
“No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.”
“Oh, yesterday, that one, we all cry out. Oh, that one! How rich and possible everything was! How ripe, ready, lavish, and filled with excitement--how hopeful we were on those summer days, under the clean, white racing clouds. Oh, yesterday!”
“We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.”

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