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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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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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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I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
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I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.
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People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.
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Selling his new book about this phony baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nut bag terrorists think.
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It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.
