"Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through."

-- Tony Grisoni

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“I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.”
“The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.”
“Avoid the "hard-to-grasp" headline - the headline that requires thought and is not clear at first glance.”
“In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.”
“Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?”
“In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.”
“It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.”
“it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.”

Source : Mary Martha Sherwood (1835). “The history of Henry Milner”, p.273

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