"In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story."

-- Lucia Puenzo

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“I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes. I was really resistant to do the mini-bible. So I gave them something, but I really didn't want to do it that way.”
“No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.214, University of Pittsburgh Pre
“Awareness of your weakness and confusion makes you strong because conscious awareness is the bright light that destroys the darkness of negativity. Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person.”
“A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.”
“We all have issues and we have usually come by them honestly.”
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”
“Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.”

Source : Samuel Woodworth, George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1830). “The New York Mirror: A Weekly Gazette of Literature and the Fine Arts”, p.288
“What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick in a proper way, of course, but above all else, a fighter is someone who's got courage, who's dead game in a fight. Most guys don't come into the world that way. You learn to be brave through that process of getting your fear and timidity beaten out of you night after night after night.”

Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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