Arcs Quotes - Page 7

• They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

  Gracie Allen

  Stupidity, Built, Laughed

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• I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

  Imogen Poots

  Character, Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities

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• The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Justice, May

  Remarks by the President at the "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 28, 2013.

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• After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

  Brittany Snow

  Character, Night, Two

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• He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Land, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.182, Bantam Classics

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• Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or worse people, but by the end of the story they are not the same personalities they were in the beginning. Their change, in its various stages, is called the story's emotional arc.

  Nancy Kress

  Character, Emotional, People

  Nancy Kress (2005). “Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint”, p.18, Writer's Digest Books

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• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Time, Ocean, Mean

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Between the dusk of a summer night
  And the dawn of a summer day,
  We caught at a mood as it passed in flight,
  And we bade it stoop and stay.
  And what with the dawn of night began
  With the dusk of day was done;
  For that is the way of woman and man,
  When a hazard has made them one.
  Arc upon arc, from shade to shine,
  The World went thundering free;
  And what was his errand but hers and mine -
  The lords of him, I and she?
  O, it's die we must, but it's live we can,
  And the marvel of earth and sun
  Is all for the joy of woman and man
  And the longing that makes them one.

  William Ernest Henley

  Summer, Night, Men

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

  Joan Van Ark

  Quests, Conscious, Catholicism

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• Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

  Joan Van Ark

  Character, Colorado, Boulders

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• A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.

  Prince Philip

  Horse, Equestrian, Excuse

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• An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Ocean, Political, Elements

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• We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.

  Thomas Berry

  Moving, Creativity, Appreciate

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• For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and I had more opportunities than certainly my grandmother had. It's the arc of history, always bending toward justice and opportunity, and she will be part of that.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Daughter, Grandmother, Opportunity

  "Exclusive: Chelsea Clinton on motherhood, her childhood and changing the world". Interview with Jeanne Sager, www.sheknows.com. September 15, 2015.

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• It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Sound, Littles

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• There's lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind of Joan of Arc because none of us can live up to that, but I'm grateful to be a role model and be respected because I have a whole slew of people, men and women, that I feel the same way about.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Grateful, Men, People

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• Closing the gate is meant to be a season-long arc, but the questions that come up in the quest, and the series of reveals and discoveries, are meant to start being the under-pinings for questions, secrets and things that will be explored in future seasons.

  Jeremy Carver

  Discovery, Long, Secret

  Source: collider.com

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• We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have to build coalitions, something that I did to take on the Iranian nuclear program, and what I will do as president to make sure that we defeat these terrorist networks.

  Hillary Clinton

  President, Nuclear, Attention

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc taking shape between them. I was experimenting with releasing the stories online for Paypal donations, so the existing ones are currently available via the blog for free download, but the ball didn't keep rolling in terms of meeting the targets I was setting.

  Hal Duncan

  Numbers, Rolling, Balls

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• At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although she is very independent, even somewhat of a loner, she is very affected by other peoples' opinions. At the opening of the book, her ideas of success and achievement are largely defined by the approval of others; over the arc of the story, I think that begins to change a little.

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Independent, Thinking

  Source: newwest.net

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• If you read a script enough, especially a good script - I try to read it 40 to 50 times before you begin so you get a sense of the arc: what happens before, what happens after, what happens during.

  Judd Nelson

  Trying, Scripts, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.

  Emma Stone

  Character, Home, Night

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I think Rick Berman just called me and asked me if I wanted to do the show [Star Trek: Enterprise], and he said they'd write an arc if I'd do it.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A creative person can suddenly realize it's not 90 minutes. They haven't got to do three acts, they haven't got to do the arc, but they can do other things. I think just as novellas turned into novels, I think that television series can begin to have that depth.

  Steven Knight

  Thinking, Creative, Depth

  Source: deadline.com

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• It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Character, Play, Roles

  "Actress Sigourney Weaver Talks About Redefining The Leading Lady Role". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, wvik.org. January 8, 2017.

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