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Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.
We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.
Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.
Wichita Falls, Texas is considering using toilet water for drinking. And a dog there today said, 'White people's problems.'
In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.
One naked star has waded through The purple shallows of the night, And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light.
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.
Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.
The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!
You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.
But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.
When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: Costs go up as a percentage of sales, and margins go down.
A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.
Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.
A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.
Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all
I am fascinated by air. If you remove the air from the sky, all the birds would fall to the ground. And all the planes, too.
Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.
It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.
We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.
But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.
We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head.
Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.
Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.
If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.
Rock and roll was something to fall back on. If I had my choice, I'd be Jerry Rice and I'd be playing until I was forty-five.
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.
I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.
When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.