"The heart responds to the conflict within a story."
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"What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict."
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"It's never too late to try to end a conflict."
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"I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept."
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"You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama."
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"If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict."
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"I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion."
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"The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict."
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"My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic."
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"Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now."
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"Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear"
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"There is no working middle course in wartime."
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"We are the prisoners of ideas."
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"You can't influence somebody when you're judging them."
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"To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom."
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"I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create."
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"Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will."
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"Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do."
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"I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere."
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"Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart."
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