Damn Things Quotes - Page 5

• Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.

  David Baldacci

  Ice, Details, Shapes

  David Baldacci (2015). “Memory Man”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Good Work, Damn

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• You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a writer. That's what I do. I want it to be written. I want it to work on the page first and foremost. So when I'm writing the script, I'm not thinking about the viewer watching the movie. I'm thinking about the reader reading the script.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I think we love who we love and there’s not a damn thing that can be done about it.

  Susan Donovan

  Thinking, Done, Damn

  Susan Donovan (2015). “The Susan Donovan Collection: The Kept Woman, Knock Me Off My Feet, and He Loves Lucy”, p.856, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sports, Real, Air

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

  Albert Ellis

  People, Sun, Form

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