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Scene Quotes by Laurie Alberts
- Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.
- Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it…
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- I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. — Christian Bale
- I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the… — Christian Bale
- I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will… — Christian Bale
- I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once.… — Christian Bale
- If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural… — John Adams
- Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. — A. C. Benson
- I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for… — Aaliyah
- As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage… — John Desmond Bernal
- I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just… — Orlando Bloom
- On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than… — Michael Bloomberg