"Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We donâ€™t go through life that way. In reality, we have doubts just like everyone else. Bringing your Leadâ€™s doubts to the surface in your plot pulls the reader deeper into the story, and this is an excellent way to coax the reader to lose himself in the story world youâ€™re about to create."

-- James Scott Bell

#Character Quotes #Reality Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.”
“The burden of disease falls on the poor.”
“Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.”
“When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years...”
“I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.”

Source : "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.
“It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”
“One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.89, Bernard Crick
“I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.”

Source : "Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks : Entrepreneurial Skills, Stories, and Encouragement for Modern Girls". Book by Stacy Kravetz, Foreword, 1999.

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