Taiye Selasi Quotes

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

Taiye Selasi

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WritingPageMatterEverythingLeave

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

Jim Mattis

WinVictoryYouSkillDevotionYour

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

Joanna Garcia

WomenStrongCareerHealthyFact

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

John Rocco

PaintingYouQuestionSameHeroes

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

John Scofield

FindJazzInspirationMuch

I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place.

John Trudell

PlaceStopLos AngelesKnewRunning

I'm willing to play any position.

Alvaro Morata

PlayPositionWillingAny

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

Stanislav Grof

EarthBeliefCulturesSystemReturn

I think about what 10-year-old Tony would want that 40-year-old Tony can make.

Tony DiTerlizzi

ThinkWantMakeWouldI ThinkAbout

I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

Rita Ora

LoveEatingPieArmsTraditional

I don't know what drives me.

Rob Lowe

MeKnowDrives

I'd like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!

Joseph Mazzello

PeopleWritingTheatreEndWeirdUp

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Pete Townshend

MouthBornPlasticSpoonI Was Born

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