I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other playwrights or reading other plays, because I haven't done much of either of those. Again, you have an intuitive sense that this is dramatic or a nice shape to a scene; you intuitively know how to tell a good story... where the highlights are, what information to withhold, and how to reveal things.
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Related Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best. ROY T. BENNETT Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able t... WILLIAM FEATHER I'm a senior and I know how it is. When you win as much as we win, everybody either wants to beat yo... RASHAD ANDERSON Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD They say you don't know what you have til its gone, I say you don't know how much you really miss so... STEVEN MONACO How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be. CAIO FONSECA I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a ... JOHN IRVING It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they a... NATE SILVER Nothing gets easy. It is just that you understand how it is and how it works. Nothing its difficult ... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how goo... GEORGE LUCAS I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I... AMY HEMPEL You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works o... TREVANTE RHODES You cannot take what I already know from me. You cannot withhold what I do not know from me because ... SHANTELEE R. BROWN It went well. I was telling somebody the other day that you don't realize how much you miss somethin... DAMION EASLEY isn't he in the wrong?" (I don't know,) Fred said again. (How am I supposed to judge? But you're wiz... DIANE DUANE Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more... JOJO MOYES A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or ... M. J. ROSE One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to fin... DOUGLAS ADAMS I won't let it be disruptive to my teammates at all. I believe that when you sign a contract, you pl... CLIFF FLOYD It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gon... ED HARRIS You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it. JEFFREY FRY I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon ... TA-NEHISI COATES We can't talk about it, or I know she won't so I don't even try, but it's what goes unsaid between p... JUSTIN TAYLOR And even though I really cannot tell you exactly how it works, I know it does. BRUCE MANDELBAUM This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year.... KELLY CUTRONE But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we... J.P. DELANEY It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how ... ALISON MOSSHART The first events you are not sure what is going to happen. (I learned) just kind of how it works out... ALLISON HANNA The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, h... LOREN WEISMAN When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't,... MARC ANDREESEN When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't,... MARC ANDREESSEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I have always wanted to know what I couldnt see, I always wanted to know what I still cannot see, ye... M.AREEB RIAZ To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR where everything is transparent, so you can see how stuff works. Robots or multimedia displays would... MARSHALL BRAIN I feel real good because it's about representing the young world and how to uplift each other an... DJ KHALED I keep working with fairly inexperienced directors. You know, if you have a good crew, a good camera... JEREMY IRONS The last game I was just watching this guy. You know how good he is, how amazing of a player he is. ... THOMAS DAVIS Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD I think of everything I have been through... It makes me see how blessed I am. I've done real hard l... HORACE JENKINS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no ma... ED BRADLEY Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I didn't really know how to do it either until we took a class. ERNEST MOORE In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you d... ERNEST HEMINGWAY YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. YOU PICK UP A BOOK, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the autho... NEIL GAIMAN It was amazing. I can't believe that something like this can be done. You hear about it and I know h... DAWN HINES I still don’t know where the river begins, or where it ends. I don’t know where it comes from, o... MICHAEL CHROBAK I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to,... RAOUL PECK To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It... AI WEIWEI It seems everybody has been somehow affected by cancer, either through a relative or a close friend ... CRAIG SAGER Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know ... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it i... PETE GALLEGO You're going to tell me what I want to know. It's just a question of how much you want it to hurt. KIEFER SUTHERLAND An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's be... ANATOLE FRANCE I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, ... SARAH DESSEN It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is... ADRIAN EDMONDSON A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about th... MELIKA DANNESE LUX I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do s... ELAINE PAGELS I've got good chemistry with both of them, Hanley and Robert. They are good guys. When you understan... DAN UGGLA I can't tell you that we can't make the target. We won't be able to say until August, when the high-... DAVID L. HEYMANN If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo... DONALD MILLER You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have... NATHAN FILLION Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to ge... E. LOCKHART So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, un... STEVEN MOFFAT You know when you walk into a dark room without a light you can't tell what is truly in it, riches o... RICHARD BELLZON you really think im happy what just because i smile haha thats a joke is the devil good just because... AMBER FAITH HUN Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. Tha... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care. SOURCE UNKNOWN If they know how to get in touch with the police or where they need to go when a disaster strikes, i... GENE BERG If you've been on this side, then you'll have more compassion and understanding for those still on t... UFUOMA APOKI 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that i... JOY WILLIAMS It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand h... F. H. BRADLEY Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm g... KELLY ROWLAND Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until t... BRUCE GREENWOOD If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA I've gone through a lot of trial and error to find what works and what doesn't, ... With that comes ... USHER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS We've got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they brainw... MITCH ALBOM I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how ... BRITTANY DANIEL You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and gi... ROBERT DE NIRO Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judge... KELLY REILLY An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able... ANATOLE FRANCE I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to ... JACK MA You meet dozens of people who tell you you can't do it. Surround yourself with the people who believ... HEATHER GRACE STEWART You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know... DOUGLAS ADAMS Every day I try to ask him a new phrase in Japanese. Like, 'What are you doing tomorrow?' or, 'How a... CHRIS CAPUANO Tell me again about the girl whose hands have no color. Whose hands are completely white. ... REBECCA WADLINGER
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AUGUST KEKULé You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and fra... J.M. AUGUST Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth. AUGUST KEKULé The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced b... AUGUST KROGH That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of ... AUGUST STRINDBERG The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics. BILLE AUGUST Doesn't matter how near; Doesn't matter how far; One thing is clear; I love you wherever you are AUGUST LINDBERG The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small num... AUGUST KROGH I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television... BILLE AUGUST It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an... BILLE AUGUST The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I me... BILLE AUGUST What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect t... AUGUST STRINDBERG A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point o... AUGUST STRINDBERG I dream, therefore I exist. AUGUST STRINDBERG The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a numb... AUGUST KROGH In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practi... AUGUST KROGH The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the a... AUGUST KROGH In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of... AUGUST KROGH In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combin... AUGUST KROGH Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the syst... AUGUST KROGH In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to s... AUGUST KROGH For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which... AUGUST KROGH In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would b... AUGUST KROGH as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes. AUGUST STRINDBERG Svijet obično ne sudi mladića po duševnih vrlinah, već po školskih svjedodžbah ili kašnje po ... AUGUST ŠENOA You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father AUGUST STRINDBERG For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the m... AUGUST STRINDBERG Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police AUGUST STRINDBERG I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales AUGUST RUSH (AUGUST RUSH 2007 MOVIE) I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says ... J. AUGUST RICHARDS I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed t... J. AUGUST RICHARDS Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enoug... J. AUGUST RICHARDS The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like C... J. AUGUST RICHARDS