Arcs Quotes - Page 9

• No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Running, Home, Men

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

  Katheryn Winnick

  Character, Thinking, Female

  Source: collider.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 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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• 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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• If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.

  Judd Apatow

  Comedian, Watches, Ifs

  Judd Apatow (2015). “Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy”, p.393, Random House

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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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• 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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• It's a long arc and a long storyline, and I think it leaves us in a great place to see how we interact again, whether that be for The Defenders, Jessica Jones Season 2, or whatever. We'll see. I don't know.

  Mike Colter

  Thinking, Long, Defenders

  "‘Jessica Jones’ Cast on Season 2 Possibilities, Sex Scenes, and ‘Luke Cage’". TCA Press Tour, collider.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Now I know how Joan of Arc felt,
  As the flames rose to her Roman nose
  And her Walkman started to melt...

  Steven Morrissey

  Flames, Rose, Noses

  "Song: 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'". 1986.

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• One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Wife, Statistics, Found

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• Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the uttermost circles fading Into the tenderest hint of jade, Or fusing in tremulous twilight blues, Robing the far-flung offices, Scintillant-storied, forking flame, Or soaring to luminous amethyst Over the steeples aureoled.

  Lola Ridge

  New York, Twilight, Night

  Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

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• Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

  Eddie Izzard

  Drama, Meals, Coke

  2004 In The Guardian, 17 May

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• The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.

  Stephen Spender

  Dark, Journey, Light

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Density, Velocity, Mass

  Carl Friedrich Gauss (1965). “General investigations of curved surfaces”

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• The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Self, Careers, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Army, Levers

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• I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

  Cary Elwes

  Character, Littles, Rooms

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• It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

  Sissy Spacek

  Character, Way, Film

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