"Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing."

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Source : Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.28, Harper Collins

Robert McKee

#Crafts Quotes #Fuel Quotes #Talent Quotes

“How this can happen is a mystery to us.”
“What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?”
“If you're late to the rescue, the imprisoned princess will just have to escape on her own!”
“More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.”
“The brain has not explained the mind fully.”

Source : Wilder Penfield (2015). “Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain”, p.88, Princeton University Press
“The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.”
“I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.”
“Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.”

Source : "Vogue's Anna Wintour, Andre Leon Talley Pen Emotional Oscar de la Renta Essays" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2014.

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