Arcs Quotes - Page 8

• Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

  Jenna Bush

  Character, Talking, Creative

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• I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

  Paul Newman

  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine and interact, plotlines and story, and things like that, it really makes a difference.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Character, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Dwayne Johnson On Set Interview FASTER". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 1, 2010.

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• We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have to build coalitions, something that I did to take on the Iranian nuclear program, and what I will do as president to make sure that we defeat these terrorist networks.

  Hillary Clinton

  President, Nuclear, Attention

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc taking shape between them. I was experimenting with releasing the stories online for Paypal donations, so the existing ones are currently available via the blog for free download, but the ball didn't keep rolling in terms of meeting the targets I was setting.

  Hal Duncan

  Numbers, Rolling, Balls

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• My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.

  Nathan Lowell

  Real, Reading, Tired

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mother, Florida, Florence Nightingale

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• I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Character, Thinking, Female

  Source: collider.com

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• The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.

  Simon Kinberg

  Character, Track, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Reading, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

  Bellamy Young

  Stars, Fun, Guests

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sight, Water, Meditation

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• Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

  Kate Clinton

  Feminist, Feminism, Posts

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.79, Bywater Books

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• A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Life Is Short, Men, Circles

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• My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Writing, Ideas, Stories

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.236, Bantam

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• As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all!

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Encouragement, Arousal, Evolution

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• There's lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind of Joan of Arc because none of us can live up to that, but I'm grateful to be a role model and be respected because I have a whole slew of people, men and women, that I feel the same way about.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Grateful, Men, People

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• You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Boys, Practice, Play

  "‘Sherlock’ Creators and Benedict Cumberbatch on “Myopically Dark” Season 4 and the Series’ Future". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2016.

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• In '7th Heaven,' more than 'Teen Wolf,' was that I got to learn more about my character. In 'Teen Wolf,' I'd always get a new arc for that character every season, which was discovery for me.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Character, Discovery, Heaven

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think there was a lot of working out the arc of how Manny [Daniel Radcliffe] talks. Scene to scene [in the Swiss army Man], if I would start talking a little too well, they would come in and say like, "Hey, you need to [dial back] your ability to speak" - things like that.

  Paul Dano

  Army, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Closing the gate is meant to be a season-long arc, but the questions that come up in the quest, and the series of reveals and discoveries, are meant to start being the under-pinings for questions, secrets and things that will be explored in future seasons.

  Jeremy Carver

  Discovery, Long, Secret

  Source: collider.com

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• Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.

  Billy Wilder

  Mean, Fabulous, Towns

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• Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

  Camille Paglia

  Accomplishment, Water, Males

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.50, Canongate Books

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• Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

  George W. Bush

  History, Movement, Determined

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.

  Evan Peters

  Character, Ideas, Play

  "Evan Peters, Man of the Year". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 4, 2015.

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