"In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other."

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Source : "In the Writing #4: Why Justified ‘s Dialogue is Best-in-Television" by Jesse Damiani, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

Diane Johnson

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.”
“I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.”
“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.”
“That's my real message: I work very hard. We're an honest presentation, we try to give people entertainment and information at the same time, and it's working. I don't see any need for big drastic changes in our presentation.”
“The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.”
“When I was young I was very interested in science and technology, and my dad brought home the first computer. I played pac man and I was hooked! By learning to create technology, girls learn to speak up.”
“Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.”
“Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.”

Source : James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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