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- As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?
- More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
- I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.
- I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.
- The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
- You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
- If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead…
- My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough…
- You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories.…
- The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems…
- The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs,…
- Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling…
- We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
- People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their…
- A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to…
- It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
- We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same…
- An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the…
- Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they…
- If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.
- I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people…
- Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so…
- That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough,…
- I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
- More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle