"Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them."

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Source : Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

Robert McKee

#Laughter Quotes #Hate Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.”
“Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.”

Source : William Wharton (1980). “Birdy”, Avon Books
“When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.”
“Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.”

Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.233, Vintage
“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.”
“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”
“There's not 20 ways. It's not your way. It's either God's way or the highway. That's it. If you want to get to heaven, you have to come God's way, and the way that God established was the way of His Son dying on the cross.”
“I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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