"I was trained as a straight dramatist."

-- Josh Gad

“When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.”

Source : "'Office' Gossip with Jenna Fischer". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. February 23, 2011.
“Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.”
“The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.”
“The world makes room for passionate people.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lewis Howes from Dec 29, 2011
“I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.”

Source : "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.
“Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from what, though?" "From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn't really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off of the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like 'happy' and 'good' will never find her." "You don't want her to be happy and good?" "I'm not sure what's really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2010). “White is for Witching”, p.165, Pan Macmillan
“Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.”
“I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.”

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