But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. ~Latin Proverb
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying. Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help ~Donald Miller
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. ~Eva Mendes
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. ~Garth Ennis
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. ~Aaron Taylor Johnson
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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~Chinese Proverb
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