"I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces together and think: this is almost the first Act of a movie, if I flesh it out a bit."

-- Shane Black

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“That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.”
“What goes through one's head when Disney asked for 52 more shows? I remember seeing that in the supplemental features...When they first said "52" I literally laughed, I thought they were kidding. They said, "Well, how many do you think could do?" And I said, "Well, we've got 6 scripts in the works, so 6 obviously we could do. We did 13 last year, I think we could do 13 this year without a problem." I said, "If we really pushed it, I think we could do 18." And they said, "What about 52?" I started laughing but they were serious and eventually they did get the 52 episode order.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: MovieWeb Gets Creepy With Gargoyles Creator Greg Weisman". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. January 16, 2006.
“I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.”
“If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.”
“Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.”
“The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.”
“Hey, dont hate the player, hate the team.”
“To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.”

Source : Scott Tinley (2015). “Finding Triathlon: How Endurance Sports Explain the World”, p.232, Hatherleigh Press

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