Barbara Branden Quotes

A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.

Barbara Branden

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Active
  • Worse

• All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • May
  • History
  • Culture

• I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Water

• The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Science
  • Old
  • Pirate

• I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

  

  Rachel True
  • I Can
  • Lead
  • Project

• I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Different
  • Think
  • Culture

• I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Sports

• Everybody has problems.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Problems
  • Everybody

• Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Because
  • Smoking
  • Tobacco

• There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation and, Mr. President, your father offered his life so that this nation might be free.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Father
  • Free

• A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Political

• Here.It will blind you with tearslike a lover.It will make your reflectiona wobbling photo of grief.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Grief

• If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Law

• I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • Life
  • Chinese
  • Stock

• Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Believe
  • American

• If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Live
  • Reality

• I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Progress

• New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Annoyed

• But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

  

  Jim Fowler
  • Church

• When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Free

• I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

  

  William Congreve
  • Heaven
  • Enough
  • Helping

• On the France's Indochina involvement: 'They were engaged in the most dangerous of all activities – deceiving themselves...France was engaged in a task beyond her strength, indeed, beyond the strength of any external power unless it was acting in support of the dominant local will and purpose.'

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Power
  • Support
  • Purpose

• A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.

  

  Barbara Branden
  • Purpose
  • Events
  • Integrated