- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell Quotes
What people choose to tell, and why it matters.
One of these tell quotes is refreshingly candid, an athlete accepting a limited role rather than resenting it, while an actor frames the whole point of the craft as telling stories that actually matter. For more on honesty and voice, see Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.
- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I wish I could tell you I was a Mr. Fix-It, but I am not that kind of guy. I get frustrated so easily.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a rule: if you're killing off a series regular, you have to tell them first. If you're killing off a person temporarily, you have to warn them before the script comes out.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020