Reese Hoffa (Maurice Antawn Chism) Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
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Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.
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Thank God I'm with the love of my life. That's why I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be.
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It's tricky to get people to go see a movie in theaters today. 'Blair Witch' is playing in D-Box Theaters with the shaking seats. Just think if they gave you a 360-degree headset. Everyone would want to go to the movie.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
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Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
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When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.
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Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
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That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
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My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
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It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.
