Blaker Kinser Quotes & Sayings

The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page. — T.A. Uner

But where in all of this description is the essential chair? Have we yet come even close to a full description of it? Did we even mention that several hundred years ago, it wasn't a chair but a tree? Where is it now? Here? Or in memory.
We cannot even fully describe a chair and yet we say "I am." "I am ... ". Understand. There is no "I am." Nothing "is." Try to describe all that you are. Simultaneously discern the logical flaw in what I've just said. Now! Feel the white flame. — Grant Morrison

To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
And tremble to be happy with the rest."
And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
God hath already said what shall betide. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite. — William H. Macy

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan

We are the stage and all the players. — Mark Nepo

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes. — Paul Stanley

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. — Edward Snowden

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn't mention us — Regina Spektor

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand. — Melanie Laurent

The heart feels, the head compares. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about
sentiment. — Agatha Christie

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. — Maurice Ravel

I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond. — Kristen Stewart

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from
the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from
what your teacher taught you to do in school. — Margaret Atwood