"Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When youâ€™re climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You canâ€™t see where youâ€™ve come from or where youâ€™re going."

-- Syd Field

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“I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.”
“A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“We don't have a lot of time to practice, but yeah, we need to find a keyboard over there, or else I need to bring one. We're intending to do so. I don't want to let you down and say that we 100% are, but yes, we're intending to do so.”
“Iâ€™ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.”
“Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.”
“We got married drunk in Vegas . . . We dated for a year, and we got married at a drive-through chapel in a cab. [We thought] you have to go down to the courthouse and sign papers and stuff, so who knew? We were married, and apparently now that [Rob] is getting married for real, his lawyer dug up something.”
“I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean...”
“I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.”

Source : "Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

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