"I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch."
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"In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false."
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"I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces."
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"With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us."
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"A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots."
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"Character is plot, plot is character."
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"Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire."
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"He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age."
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"Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world."
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"Even if the experience in my stories is not autobiographical and the actual plot is not autobiographical, the emotion is always somewhat autobiographical. I think there's some of me in every one of the stories."
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"The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned."
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"The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined."
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"I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds."
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"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."
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"I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are."
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"Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless."
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"I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction."
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