But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.


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Black ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or,...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, wh...
BETH DITTO
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
BETH DITTO
It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the lo...
BETH BROOKE
My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by...
BETH BROOKE
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned te...
BETH DITTO
Setbacks are just learning experiences.
BETH BROOKE
I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.
BETH DITTO
Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
BETH GIBBONS
The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben...
BETH ORTON
I enjoy doing fun things outdoors with my son to stay in shape. We like camping together. After a we...
BETH RIESGRAF
My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigge...
BETH DITTO
We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away...
BETH REVIS
I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.
BETH DITTO
Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow...
BETH FANTASKEY
Choice or no, my heart is his.
BETH REVIS
Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could bre...
BETH FANTASKEY
Why did I sign up for this?'

'Because we grow by challenging ourselves.
BETH FANTASKEY
I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things ...
BETH GUTCHEON
What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about thei...
BETH BROOKE
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists...
BETH DITTO
I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday ...
BETH MOORE
Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if...
BETH GRANT
God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a parti...
BETH MOORE
I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myse...
BETH DITTO
The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are dif...
BETH GRANT
More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It mu...
BETH REVIS
I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it's so pretty! Also, I'm not a big fur person,...
BETH RIESGRAF
As a business that's strategy-focused, I regularly experience bias on the part of male clients who a...
BETH ZIMMERMAN
Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them t...
BETH ZIMMERMAN
Women want to simplify what they perceive to be an unnecessarily complex shopping process. Above all...
BETH ZIMMERMAN
When you go from one lecture hall to another or even home for the holidays, there is a desire to be ...
BETH ZIMMERMAN
The key is for product manufacturers and developers is to maintain as much of the essential function...
BETH ZIMMERMAN
Have some idea of how much you want to spend when you go into a contract with anyone. Allow approxim...
BETH YOUNG
I always do landscape design with the functional needs of the homeowners foremost in my mind.
BETH YOUNG
I think the confidence and optimism are there. I think they are really starting to believe. Confiden...
BETH YOUNG
I heard her shout that she was good for 16. I told Simone I was going to hold her to it. She said, '...
BETH YOUNG
There's still a lot of basketball to be played. We visit Allen on Tuesday and they're always tough. ...
BETH YOUNG
We probably have six who can score 18 to 20 points. We have five to six which can easily do it.
BETH YOUNG
We are the epitome of a true team. We don't have any superstars and everyone has stepped up in one w...
BETH YOUNG
There's a lot more attention being given to board leadership than there was a couple of years ago. W...
BETH YOUNG
You can't get down in this district. We started 0-2 and that makes it hard. You can't ever give up.
BETH YOUNG