Beginning Middle And End Quotes

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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Order, Should Have

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Goodbye, Art, Business

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Spring, New Beginnings

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• You're searching...
  For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
  Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
  There are only middles.

  Robert Frost

  Goodbye, Farewell, Mean

  Robert Frost (2010). “The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems”, p.23, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

  Robert Frost

  Beginnings And Ends, Goodbye My Love, Great Beginnings

  Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, New Beginnings

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Beautiful, Book

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Every concept should have a beginning, middle and end.

  Ali Shirazinia

  Should Have, Ends, Concepts

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

  Julia Bacha

  Powerful, Heart, Successful

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• Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Church, Ends

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1968). “The Pursuit of God”, p.55, Fig

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• I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Clever, Book, Boys

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

  Hope Edelman

  Mourning, Injustice, Ends

  Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.6, Da Capo Press

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• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  Aaron Stanford

  Nice, Stories, Ends

  "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.

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• Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

  Annie Lennox

  Labels, Ends, Feels

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

  Wendell Pierce

  Stories, Ends, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

  Claude Lelouch

  Sometimes, Film, Ends

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

  Anne Rice

  Character, Should Have, Principles

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• Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

  Steve Earle

  Stories, Ends, Expanding

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Dream, Knowledge

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• I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.

  Khandi Alexander

  Opportunity, Thinking, Suffering

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

  Mason Cooley

  Abandoned, Ends, Modernism

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• After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?

  Tad Williams

  Profound, Bending, World

  Tad Williams (2002). “Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light”, p.584, Penguin

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• I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

  Danny Elfman

  Knowing, Challenges, Would Be

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