"The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable."

-- David Mamet

#Drama Quotes #Hero Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.”
“Since I was a kid, I've been telling everyone about the rain forest and how it's being destroyed.”
“Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.”

Source : "Interview with Bill Simmons, Author of The Book of Basketball". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“The core philosophy we share with leaders is that everyone can develop the qualities in themselves. We all have strengths, but where we have gaps, we can make small changes in our behavior that make a big difference in how others see us as leaders.”
“You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.”
“If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.”
“You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.”
“America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.”

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