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"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."

- Winston Churchill

"Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time"

- Voltaire

"Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person?

Good luck."

- Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. THE DARK KNIGHT

(Yes, it's on cable. Again.)

"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London

It occurred to me that Montgomery Scott may have also inadvertently discovered an apt metaphor for finding the right relationship with the right person at the right time.

It's like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet fired from horseback whilst wearing a blindfold.Translation: it's a tough shot, but if you make it you look good ( Read more... )

"Whoever loves, let him flourish. Let him perish who knows not love. Let him perish twice over whoever forbids love."

(Graffiti from the house of Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii)

MARSHALL: They just hire me to drive the car, sir. I'm not here to tell you who you are ( Read more... )

"My motherf*cker is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheep count him."

from HEIST, by David Mamet

"Do you think they might be a lot happier over there if they could just get women and booze in the same room at the same time?"

- Tom Hanks, as Congressman Charlie Wilson.

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Sorkin is an ace with dialogue and scene construction. Brilliant scene-work.