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• There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals and visions. .. Yet no earthly dreamer can match the greatest of them all, the Dreamer who died on the cross to make His dream a reality. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word." The literal meaning of logos, the original Greek term translated as "Word," is idea, thought or blueprint. It is an ancient Greek theatrical term describing the work of a playwright as he conceives, or dreams up, the plot of a play. So we could say, "In the beginning was the dream".

  Tommy Tenney

  Dream, Reality, Men

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• When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Writing, Stories, Architecture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate these people when they are involved in these plots and these plans. And we have to give the local authorities the ability to penetrate to disrupt. That's what we need to do.

  John Kasich

  People, Giving, President

  John Kasich's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Blow, Tunnels

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• U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy plot. First Republicans want to say that illegal aliens are illegal, next they're going to want to take away their voting rights.

  Argus Hamilton

  Rights, Voting, Trying

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• Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

  Matisyahu

  Wise, Song, Jesus

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• And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
  And Horror the soul of the plot.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Madness, Horror

  Edgar Allan Poe (2001). “Great Horror Stories”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out.

  Phillip Lopate

  Mind, Twists, Stories

  Phillip Lopate (2013). “To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with - who may not often read anything but the Sears catalog - to read my books.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Book, Commitment

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• I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

  Arthur Bradford

  Want, Unusual, Situation

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going - -I want to experience that, too. What I found out is that it's very interesting, but it takes much longer because you have so many false starts. You take wrong turns and you have to go back and start the whole chapter, or the whole section, from scratch.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Book, Knowing, Work Out

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Fate, Thinking, Dublin

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Character, Thinking, Film

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. 15 November, 1999.

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• Plot was always secondary in my mind.

  Dan Chaon

  Mind

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

  Dan Chaon

  Block, Thinking, Stories

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to teach myself how to do plot and scene. My first story collection had the most issues with the plotlessness, and when I was writing my second collection I was teaching myself how to make things happen.

  Dan Chaon

  Teaching, Writing, Years

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

  Ann Hood

  Grief, Smooth, Ends

  Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Interesting, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area.

  Anthea Turner

  Wise, Home, Eye

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

  Patricia Heaton

  Book, Shopping, Long

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• I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a bit of a roller coaster ride...

  Mark Haddon

  People, Pages, Firsts

  "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.

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• A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

  Mark Haddon

  Real, Drama, People

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• All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

  William Gurnall

  Hands, Drawing, Earth

  William Gurnall (1994). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.117, Moody Publishers

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• Spy plots are hard, really hard.

  Rashida Jones

  Spy, Hard

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• I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Cute, Children, Character

  "Barbara Kingsolver: 'Motherhood is so sentimentalised in our culture'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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