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.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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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.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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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.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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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.
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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.'
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Everybody has problems.
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Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
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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.
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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.
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Here.It will blind you with tearslike a lover.It will make your reflectiona wobbling photo of grief.
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If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
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I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.
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I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.
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Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain.
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I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
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Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.
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A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.
