Rita Mae Brown
Author, Activist
"You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it."
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Cliffs
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Frank Herbert
Science Fiction Writer
"When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them"
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell."
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"Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off."
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"Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know."
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"I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing."
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"Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff."
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"The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive."
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"The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours."
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"Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route."
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"My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats."
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"I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie."
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"It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff."
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"She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing."
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"Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff."
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"When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup."
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"But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea."
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"I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce."
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"I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs."
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"Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff."
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"Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff."
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"The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs."
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"I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon."
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