"It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience."

-- Michael Schur

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.”
“In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.”
“The essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we would be able to study and speak about the CIA. We would confront our institutionalized racism and sadism. But we can't, and so our agency's history remains unknown, which in turn means we have no idea who we are, as individuals or as a nation. We imagine ourselves to be things we are not. Our leaders know bits and pieces of the truth, but they cease being leaders once they begin to talk about the truly evil things the CIA is doing.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather, one ancient willow managed a few gray ***** willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred gray background.”

Source : Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing
“She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.”
“I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.”
“Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.”
“I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.”

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