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Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

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• I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Character
  • Never
  • Write

• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Special

• I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Environment

• I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Heard
  • Cried
  • Johnny

• Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Myself
  • Mistakes
  • Learned

• I'm a big believer of work/life balance. You need a little down time to recharge to make sure that when you're here, you're really all here. I still have a child in high school, so I go to her sporting events, even if it means leaving work and working again when I get home. I probably should work out a little more than I do.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• My uncle was in a ska band called the Top Cats; that was my first proper influence, as I was taken to see them every week. It sort of built up, the want to replicate it creatively.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Up
  • Band
  • Taken

• I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo's products were the first things that really cleared it up.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Up
  • Bad

• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike

• It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • People
  • Bad

• I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.

  

  Jean Smart

• I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.

  

  Louis Theroux

• When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Life
  • Work

• My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Knowledge

• It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette

• No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Time
  • Family
  • Poverty

• When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Scripts
  • Shooting
  • Odd

• The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.

  

  Evan Daugherty
  • Internet
  • Letters
  • Scripts

• I felt like a drop of rain in a spiderweb, and I was careful not to slide down.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Rain
  • Slide
  • Spider Web

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.

  

  Curtis Hanson
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