Lines Quotes
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.
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Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
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I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
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Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.
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In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.
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By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
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You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.
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I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.
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Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.
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It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
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Pray to God and say the lines.
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By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.
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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
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So the Great Santini was how he liked being referred to by his children. He would line up his seven children, and there was this ritual we'd go through. And he would say, who's the greatest of them all? And we - the seven - would say, you are, oh, Great Santini. And he would say, who knows all, hears all and sees all? You do, oh, Great Santini. So this was the ridiculous way I was raised.
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In Christianity, nobody wins until everybody crosses the line.
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Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.
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There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?
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Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
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Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.
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Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
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You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
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The script looks huge when you first get it, but you just have to go home and drill the lines out. The more you read it, the shorter it gets. I usually read it at least four times.
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It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.
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I've found that I'd be the first one to cut lines.
