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• I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

  Ellen Burstyn

  Mother, Thinking, Play

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• If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

  Richard Russo

  Betrayal, Mean, Careers

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• We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Miracle, Mystery, Inscrutable

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• You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

  Marc Maron

  Character, Growth, Television

  "Marc Maron Off-Screen". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2015.

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• I love drama. I love to play an arc.

  Dee Wallace

  Drama, Play, Love Drama

  Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.

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• Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Looks

  Mark Twain (2016). “Joan of Arc”, p.192, Ignatius Press

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• Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

  Joan of Arc

  Soul, Tears, Say Anything

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• Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many books that his growth can become stagnant. He ends this story in a very different place.

  Rick Remender

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

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• Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

  Colin Hay

  Get Better, Trying, Want

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• Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

  Ryan Murphy

  Writing, Years, Glee

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• If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

  Tim Wu

  Swings, Opposites, Age

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• I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.

  Amber Benson

  Selfish, Real, Book

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• What the Londoner sees in his mind's eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset, and the great arc of Barlow's train shed gaping to devour incoming engines, and the sudden burst of exuberant Gothic of the hotel seen from gloomy Judd Street.

  John Betjeman

  Sunset, Eye, Mind

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• It is my hope that everyone's valiant efforts will have a ripple effect that will carry us forth into a fairer future. 'The arc of the moral universe is long,' said Martin Luther King Jr., 'but it bends toward justice.' And because I have been witness to so many people who lent their support to this good cause, I am lifted up by them -- lifted up so high that I can see the end of that arc.

  Prince Gomolvilas

  Kings, Justice, Long

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• Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ... because they burn her at the end.

  Harold Clurman

  Pain, Acting, Ass

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• People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

  Diablo Cody

  Reality, People, Redemption

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• Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

  Ann Brashares

  Writing, Character, Age

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 25, 2013

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• Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

  Ann Brashares

  Character, Age, Fleeting

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 06, 2011

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• Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.

  N.D. Wilson

  Epic, Mountain Ranges, Self

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Above all there's a love which is real, the ultimate love. We merge not only physically, but mentally and spiritually, in arc-line, aura and subtle body. We amalgamate with each other. That is real love.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Real

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• If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

  E. Jean Carroll

  War, Bed, Tides

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• The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

  Carol Mann

  Heart, Golf, Swings

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• The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Fighting, People, Vision

  "2008 Commencement Address by Barbara Kingsolver". today.duke.edu. May 11, 2008.

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• You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mean, Worry, Climate

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.267, 谷月社

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• The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Long, Justice

  "Keep Moving From This Mountain". Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood, February 25, 1965.

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