#pen

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#am #chance #chapters #characters #develop

I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them. ↗

— Gary Locke

#american #american businesses #any #businesses #care costs

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#anyone #become #happened #make #neurotic

It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently. ↗

— Nia Long

#because #been #big #consistently #depend

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#better #dangerous #dispense #easily #evil

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ↗

— Samuel Lover

#comes #cure #i #itch #literature

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. ↗

— George Lucas

#high #high school #history #i #interested

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#day #every #every day #eyes #go

Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#aggressive #comes #could #couple #falling

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts." ↗

— Mako

#changes #could #day #difficult #get