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• Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

  Julianna Margulies

  Roles, Television, World

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Men, Organization

  "Hospital Turnarounds: Lessons in Leadership". Book by Terence F. Moore, p. 100, 1999.

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• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  Patrice Leconte

  Film, Form

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

  Patrice Leconte

  Rooms, Film, Wells

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  Patrice Leconte

  Clever, Giving, Directors

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Years, Long, Perfection

  "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.

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• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Believe, Trying

  "Taylor Lautner Interview THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 7, 2009.

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• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Children, Character, People

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

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• I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

  Grant Morrison

  People, Comic, Reader

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

  Isaac Marion

  Becoming One, Body, Warm

  "Q&A with Warm Bodies author Isaac Marion". Interview with Tim Hall, blog.seattlepi.com. January 29, 2013.

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• I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Directors, Prejudice

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• I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

  Robin McKinley

  Children, Stories, Differentiation

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• I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

  Barry Mann

  Song, Sober

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

  Chuck Mangione

  Song, Keys, Play

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• There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

  Denise Mina

  Children, Book, Reading

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• I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

  Don McLean

  Song, Stuff, Fantasy

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• When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

  Henning Mankell

  Answers, Lists, Novel

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• As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

  Henning Mankell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army.

  Henning Mankell

  Art, Believe, Army

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• I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

  Ian MacKaye

  Problem, Behinds

  "A Conversation with Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson". Spin Interview, www.spin.com. July 22, 2003.

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• 'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

  Chris Weitz

  Fantasy Novels, Ideas, Ironic

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

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• The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?

  Randy Wayne White

  Anchors, Three, Four

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• Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

  Chuck Leavell

  Character, Southern, Heartfelt

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• If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

  Paolo Maldini

  Children, Stories, Imagine

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