"Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action."

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Sol Stein

#Writing Quotes #Action Quotes #Tough Quotes

“As long as you want to pay to see a band, what makes the band want to get better? Nothing! Really! The Stones are, God knows, horrible beyond horrible, but it doesn't stop the fans from paying money to see them decompose in front of your very eyes.”

Source : Source: www.theaquarian.com
“Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.”
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
“What's a hero if not for its journey.”

Source : "Showrunner J.H. Wyman Talks the Final Season of FRINGE, When to Expect Answers, Creating a Rewarding Conclusion and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2012.
“I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.”
“If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.”

Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org
“The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.”
“Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.”

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