Mark Boal Quotes
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.
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I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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There's a value in used electronic equipment, and currently, there are small, domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few, if any, environmental and safety standards.
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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
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Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.
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If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.
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Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.
