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"I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board."
"This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body."
"Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do."
"I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, however imperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence. We live in order to finish an, as yet, unfinished universe, unfinished so far as the human, that is, the highest part of it, is concerned. We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent."
"I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier."
"Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that."
"I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures."
"We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us."
"Effort is grossly underrated."
"When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution."
"I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course."
"Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses."
"Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action."
"Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established"
"As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts."
"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."
"We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many."
"No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]"
"Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable."
"I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?"
