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• I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've felt numerous moments in my life where my most confident moment and my most insecure moment were exactly the same time. There's nothing funny or interesting about perfection.

  Kristen Bell

  Real, Character, Insecure

  "Kristen Bell Talks Veronica Mars, the Show's Journey From the Small Screen to Theaters, Returning to the Character, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I just like the process of taking something written on a sheet of paper and giving it life and shape. I like the collaborative process of filmmaking, which is all simply to say that I love my work and I would continue to look for things that have the potential to be engaging and successful.

  Harrison Ford

  Successful, Giving, Shapes

  "Harrison Ford Talks ENDER’S GAME, Why It’s a Good Family Movie, the Evolution of Space Visual Effects Since STAR WARS, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 27, 2013.

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• Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

  E. L. James

  Negotiation, Contracts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

  David Bowie

  Taken, Writing, Heart

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.39, Melville House

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• If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.

  Willem Dafoe

  Gun, Littles, Sticks

  "Willem Dafoe Talks OUT OF THE FURNACE, Playing Conflicted Characters, Bringing an Eastern European Flair to His Character, and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.

  Andrew Bird

  Play, Pieces, Way

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

  Adam Pally

  Wings, Order, Common

  "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

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• In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Political, Would Be, Causes

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• When I've acted, and it's not been something I've written or have had at least a hand in writing, I do think there is a controlling side of me that is frustrated by that. And I actually don't think that it's a bad thing, because if I'm going to be in movies, in large part they're going to be movies that I write.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.

  Ann Coulter

  Character, Littles, Conservative

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, m.thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what my favorite book is, and in effect, there's always a capital-F Favorite, capital-B Book that I would like to write myself someday. I try to go for that ideal of writing the best, most entertaining, most beautifully written book that I possibly can.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Goal

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

  Doug Graham

  Book, Soul, Ignorant

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• Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

  Dani Shapiro

  Wise, Book, Bigs

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• No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge.

  Cornelia Funke

  Thyme, Bishops, Stories

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Angel, Men

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• The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Years, Glee

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.

  Stephen Fry

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "I saw hate in a graveyard - Stephen Fry". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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• Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Stories, Paradise, Exploration

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• It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral.

  Robert Lowell

  Powerful, Book, Years

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• No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

  Ken Burns

  Baseball, Hero, Book

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• Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

  Sophie Germain

  Algebra, Geometry

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• Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Newspapers, Wells

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

  Richard Bach

  Letting Go, Book, Writing

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• We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.

  Tristan Tzara

  Mistake, Made, Made A Mistake

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• Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

  Marcel Proust

  Beautiful, Book, Language

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