Kate Klise Quotes

As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.

Kate Klise

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The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

Joe Biden

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I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

Robert M. Gates

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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Aneurin Bevan

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But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Stephen King

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I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

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I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

Jasmine Guinness

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What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.

Jon Watts

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With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It's so all-encompassing and exhausting. I'm not saying that's not some women, but it's just not all of us.

Donna Lynne Champlin

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As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

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Once you feel good, you look good... that projects to everyone.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

Suzi Quatro

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And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.

Sheryl Sandberg

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