Plot Quotes - Page 7

• I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Stars, Names, My Family

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• A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

  Rupert Holmes

  Song, Careers, Stories

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• The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

  Norman Cousins

  Home, Practice, Decision

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• There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Triggers, Happens

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• Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Fiction, Exhausted

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.87

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• We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Differences, People, Sound

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

  Paul Valery

  Light, Tree, Growing

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• If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

  Gloria Steinem

  Might, Politician, Conventions

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• I love a life whose plot is simple.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

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• In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

  Mike Figgis

  Actors, Made, Process

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• I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Stories, Theme, Knows

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• We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

  Gregory Maguire

  Soul, Lapses, Contradiction

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• This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

  Graham Nelson

  Mean, Should, Trails

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• Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Ideas, Oil, Environmental

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2014

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• If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Giving

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• CBS announced they're canceling As The World Turns. Don't worry though, if you're addicted to the twisted plots, the intrigue, the illicit sex, you can still watch golf.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sex, Golf, Worry

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• Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

  Edgar Bergen

  Communist, Buried, Show Me

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

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• Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie.

  James Franco

  Weed, Two, Guy

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• Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry Blair. What I hadn't expected was for the backstory to make so much sense. Usually science is the first causality of superhero stories, tossed aside with the breezy rationalization: 'Hey, it's comics!' Only Superhuman is, to my knowledge, the first hard science superhero story. And the Story is the better for it.

  Mike W. Barr

  Writing, Knowing, Superhero

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• Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great coming of age tale, compelling character, and a fast-paced plot. If his first book is any indication of things to come, then all fantasy readers should rejoice as a new master storyteller has hit the scene.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Song, Book, Character

  Interview with Fran Friel, amazingstoriesmag.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Weed, Flower, Pigs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.24, Sparklesoup LLC

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• In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Love, Lying, Reading

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.339, Random House

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• Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs. Whoever relaxes vigilance will disarm himself politically and land himself in a passive position.

  Mao Zedong

  Running, Dog, Peace

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.69, China Books

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• Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Wise, Real

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• So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.

  August Wilson

  Reality, Play, Needs

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