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• I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

  Stan Dale

  Opposites, Optimism, Paranoid

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• We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Two, Three, World

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

  Billy Wilder

  Hiding, Subtle, Elegant

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• The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways to kill these animals but can never bring myself to do it.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Animal, Rabbits, Salad

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• I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.

  David Zucker

  Cutting, Scary, Example

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

  James Laughlin

  Gertrude, Needed Someone, Bits

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• When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

  Tom Rickman

  Character, Drawing, Purpose

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• I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a different way to what cinema usually does in its very schematic and sometimes very controlled, plot-oriented ways of thinking. Sometimes I feel like I've found the holy grail, and next week I think it's a complete mistake and I need to try something completely different. It's an ongoing process.

  Christoffer Boe

  Mistake, Thinking, Next Week

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• Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me - I could make them up and learn bits and pieces of what was going on over time. There's something about it being always a step away that makes it more fun to chase.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Growing Up, Fun, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Mind, Pieces, Sake

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• The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Christian, Drama, Character

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• In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips -- but not on every page. He expands his narrative to accommodate shrewd philosophy and inventive portraiture, a very amusing disquisition on Soviet latrines and a number of outlandish plot developments. In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurd.

  Ken Kalfus

  Appreciation, Rip, Philosophy

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• The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Fishing, Long

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• Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

  Theresa May

  Country, Technology, Track

  "Theresa May hits back in coalition clash over 'snooper's charter'" by Alan Travis, Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Character, Reality

  "Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers". Morning Edition, www.npr.org. March 13, 2012.

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• I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

  Theresa May

  Risk, Succeed, Terrorist

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

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• Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

  Marcel Marceau

  Destiny, Opera, Mood

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

  W. H. Auden

  Taken, Hands, Fame

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• This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England
  This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
  . . .
  This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Land, Nurse

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life. She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.

  Bob Hope

  Baseball, Character, Kids

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• But, as an actress, you don't want to run into these scenes, willy-nilly. The couple that I did do were important for the character and essential to the plot, to show what was actually going on between each character. It is great to be able to have that, and to be able to say certain things and have certain passions.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Running, Couple, Passion

  Source: collider.com

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• Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Character, Needs

  "Suddenly: An Interview With Etgar Keret". Interview with Courtney Becks, www.raintaxi.com.

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• Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Self, Purpose, Literature

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• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Land, Cost

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