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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Art, Freedom

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.37, Princeton University Press

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• Kids at skate parks will step up and challenge me to a game of Skate, but I'm over that, I really don't care. I'm all about participating, and I'm all about being a part of this scene, but there's certain vibes I just don't get along with.

  Mike Vallely

  Kids, Games, Challenges

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 10

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• Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?

  Michael Shurtleff

  Emotional, Discovery, Acting

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• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Christmas, Wise

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

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• I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Illumination

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.214, Penguin

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• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Chaos, Winner

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• Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Like Love, Murder, Film

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

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• Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

  A. C. Benson

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

  Sydney Smith

  Life, Math, Culture

  Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

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• Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Character, Cameras

  "The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time".

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• Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

  Orson Welles

  Ecstasy, Celluloid, Can Do

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• Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Movie

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

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• The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Play, Acting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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• In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Fairs, Romeo And Juliet Play

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 92

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• Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Bridges

  c.1864 Complete Poems, no.915 (first published 1929).

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• Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

  Elmore Leonard

  Details, Stories, Want

  Elmore Leonard (2009). “Get Shorty: A Novel”, p.207, Zondervan

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• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing.

  Richard North Patterson

  Falling In Love, Writing, Character

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• I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, People, World

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.223, Random House

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• The world's a scene of changes.

  Abraham Cowley

  World

  'The Mistress: or...Love Verses' (1647) 'Inconstancy'

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• I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots with extras, I have to say. I don't mind extras in other scenes, but I love New York City streets just as they look. I don't even care if someone looks at the camera. It doesn't bother me.

  Greta Gerwig

  New York, Cities, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Character, Directors, Vagabonds

  "Creator/Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino Talks BUNHEADS, Casting the Highly Specific Characters, Knowing Her Endgame, Writing Movies and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 4, 2013.

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• [In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

  Travis Fimmel

  Fighting, Acting, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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