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• Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

  Jim Jefferies

  Character, Plot Lines, Trying

  "LEGIT - the New FX Series! Interview with Jim Jeffries". Interview with Jeri Jacquin, patch.com. February 05, 2013.

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• I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre moves the plot forward at all times.

  Susan Stroman

  Moving, Thinking, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Most of the people who were responsible for 9/11 are now in custody or have been killed. But there are others, and they plot and they plan, and they hope to pull it off again. And while we have to be right 100 percent of the time, they only have to be right once. So there's no way to overreact to that.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Custody, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

  Daniel Handler

  Dark, Ideas, May

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pages, Woods, Steps

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened.

  Caitlin Moran

  Years, Stories, World

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• True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Hope, Adversity, Want

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• Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Nature, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.35

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• As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

  Radha Mitchell

  Travel, Adventure, Character

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• Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Party, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.346

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• Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?

  Eudora Welty

  Character, Somewhere Else, Would Be

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• [In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Nature, Science, Earthquakes

  " Earthquake Information Bulletin, Volumes 12-13" (p. 6), 1980.

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• Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South Carolina has probably decided favourably before this time. The plot thickens fast. A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come.

  George Washington

  Monday, Fate, America

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• Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries of life. It shows one that there are really no new plots.

  Richard Haynes

  Art, Reading, Drunk

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• I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Writing, Care

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

  David Langford

  Technology, Mercenary, Devices

  David Langford (2003). “Up Through an Empty House of Stars”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC

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• The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there’s a whole other world. I’m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . I’m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn’t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Reading, Book, Character

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• Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

  Eric Idle

  Inspirational, Graduation, Simple

  "17 Funniest Lines from Monty Python Star Eric Idle’s Commencement Speech" By Gillian Frew, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.

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• Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

  Derek Walcott

  Time, Memories

  Derek Walcott (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.231, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window.

  Margaret George

  Heart, Moon, Light

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• The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never get anywhere with. Though it has been practised on me time and again I never cease to marvel how it happens that with certain individuals whom I know, within a few minutes after greeting them we are embarked on an endless voyage comparable in feeling and trajectory only to the deep middle dream which the practised dreamer slips into like a bone slips into its sockets

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Book, Feelings

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

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• I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.

  Joe Hill

  Character, Thinking, Fiction

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• Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

  Stephen King

  House, Stories, Trustworthy

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.

  Kerstin Gier

  Aunt, Thinking, Long Ago

  Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.225, Macmillan

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• Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who have nothing to do with the plot. And when somebody comes along that you think really has something to do with the plot, he suddenly drops out. After a while you begin to wonder what the story is about, and you feel that it's about nothing—just a jumble.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Something New”, p.181, Lulu Press, Inc

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