Joseph Jacobs Quotes
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
Joseph Jacobs
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[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
Lily King
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Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.
Colin Farrell
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With so many incidents of identity loss via tape, some are wondering if they should get off tape.
Charles Curtis
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Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?
Charles Handy
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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
Chester Himes
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That is the beauty of having characters that don't make a big deal out of being gay, or lesbian, or whatever. They are just what they are, and that is acceptable - and that nobody should question that and that love is love.
Katrina Law
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The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
George V. Higgins
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.
Rebecca Solnit
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
Ted Demme
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How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?
Stephen Fry
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Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
Joseph Jacobs
