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The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.
The thing to try and keep in mind, no matter what the day, is there is always something good, to give thanks to God in prayer.
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.
Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.
My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.
We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.
I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.
A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.
Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.
I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
I feel responsible for everybody, and I couldn't imagine a scenario where I wouldn't be directing what was happening, at the end.
We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.
Your smile lights my way through life, and keeps me warm inside. It reminds me that people are good, especially when their snide.
A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.
At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.
Putting my words piece online was an important part of my plan to help women learn how to love themselves and have a better life.
When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.
The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.
We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are back in Cardiff, back in the box, and back in action - for one of our scariest adventures yet!
I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.
I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.
A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.
I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.
I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!
So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?
I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.
To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.
Home is where your family is. Wherever you are, it's about the people you're surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head.
For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.
Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.
There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.
If you made a movie of 'Sharp Objects,' chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can reach a lot of people.
Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*
These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.
It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.
I think all technology should be plug and play. I would say it's easier to set up a blog than it is to change channels on your telly.
If people can spot talent rather than the talent having to come to us, then I think you might find that the quality of stuff goes up.
Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.
What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.