"The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of……" — Robert McKee
"The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect."
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54 Quotes by Robert McKee
Robert McKee has 54 quotes on this site.
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Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
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In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
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To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.
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Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows…
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If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your…
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Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else,…
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A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the…
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In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
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In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life…
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Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear…
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Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency…
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When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to…
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More Diminishing Quotes
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding…
— Clara Barton
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When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for…
— Deepak Chopra
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We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we…
— Unknown Author
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under…
— Andre Gide
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From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
— David Hume
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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting…
— Marya Mannes
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.…
— Martin Luther
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It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in…
— James A. Baldwin
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It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a…
— Pete Gill
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There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm…
— Morgan Llywelyn
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