Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.Charlie Jane Anders
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw -
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden -
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker -
The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
Callum Keith Rennie -
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen -
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow
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I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama and a good ear for dialogue and also the rhythm of speech. Similarly, my 16 years in radio drama has influenced me. You only have 45 minutes, or 7,000 words, to tell a story, so every scene has to have a point.
Rachel Joyce -
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth -
It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
Victoria Osteen -
India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
Barack Obama -
They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Words are good servants but bad masters.
Aldous Huxley -
I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
Frank Gorshin -
I worked on a show called 'West Wing' before. I didn't work with Aaron Sorkin, but he created the show and set the tenor of the show, which was you follow the words of the script perfectly because there's a dramaturgical thing behind it.
Jimmy Smits -
As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.
Elle Varner -
I am the man who keeps his words.
Masayoshi Son -
Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
Kenneth Branagh
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Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
John Joseph Lydon -
My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.
Boy George Culture Club -
Sartre observed that he had never felt so free as during the German occupation when (as a member of the French resistance) he was in constant danger of being arrested and shot. Could there be a more conclusive proof that human beings are freer than they realize, and that their freedom is eroded by habit and laziness?
Colin Wilson -
I never went to college. I started working when I was 17.
Barun Sobti -
Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
Albert Einstein -
As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
Charlie Jane Anders