Sealara Khoo Quotes & Sayings

One day I realized something obvious: In all these movies, there was a similar plot. The hero is always weak at the beginning and strong at the end, or a jerk at the beginning and kind at the end, or cowardly at the beginning and brave at the end. In other words, heroes are almost always screwups. But it hardly mattered. All the hero has to do to make the story great is struggle with doubt, face their demons, and muster enough strength to destroy the Death Star. That said, I noticed another thing. The strongest character in a story isn't the hero, it's the guide. Yoda. Haymitch. It's the guide who gets the hero back on track. The guide gives the hero a plan and enough confidence to enter the fight. The guide has walked the path of the hero and has the advice and wisdom to get the hero through their troubles so they can beat the resistance. The more I studied story, the more I realized I needed a guide. — Donald Miller

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry. — Edward Hirsch

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

traveled to the defendant's attorney and locked — Michael Connelly

Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white. — Sue Grafton

Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse — Connor George Serbin

Something about this boat screamed, I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul! — Maureen Johnson

[ ... ] she'd been raised to fear a person's differences rather than celebrate them. — Olivia Cunning

I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us. — Sonakshi Sinha

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. — Herman Melville

People want you to be ordinary. — Robert Crais

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning and that, when my last sun has set and my last moon has risen, when the dawn comes that marks the moment when I am born with the dead, there will be mercy. — Dean Koontz