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With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Dan Lipinski
A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.
Pawel Pawlikowski
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My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.
Jeff Bridges
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From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.
Steven Sinofsky
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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Stories don't interest me.


Geoff Dyer
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Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.


Rosamund Pike
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I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
Zoe Kazan
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There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
Brad Meltzer
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A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.
Ving Rhames
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I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.
Michael Koryta
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I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.
Ewan McGregor
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I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.


Edward Norton
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Irving Thalberg
If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.
Daniel Espinosa
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I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.
Cher
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
Gabrielle Giffords
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.
Bella Thorne
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It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially.
Gregory Benford
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I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.
Colm Meaney
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