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“Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.”
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“Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well as her vulnerabilities, her secrets, and especially her contradictions. This development needs to be forged in scenes, the better to employ your intuition rather than your intellect.”
Source : "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.
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“Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.”
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“If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write”
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“Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach them respect and a love for the rich and diverse traditions America has to offer them.”
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“In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.”
Source : 'The Flaming Heart Upon the Book and Picture of Saint Teresa', collected in Carmen Deo Nostro (published posthumously,1652).
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“Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.”
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“Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.”
