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I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out it's their last year and often have to hustle to invent a third act, but they were never necessarily organically meaning to begin with.
Nic Pizzolatto
Tags: Like Out Never
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.
Martin Chemnitz
Tags: Love Which True
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
Morley Callaghan
Tags: Think Up Life
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True love stories never have endings.


Richard Bach
Tags: Love Never True
The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
Pamela Anderson
Tags: Society Your Use
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Tags: More Up Being
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
Gary Ross
Tags: Music About Just
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I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.


Tibor Kalman
Tags: Good Like Tell
You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.
Nancy Kress
Tags: Best You Your
I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.
Geoffrey Rush
Tags: Love How Many
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.


Charles Caleb Colton
Tags: Health Like True
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
John Green
Tags: Me Always Never
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I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.


David Icke
Tags: Sports Life Love
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
Marie Curie
Tags: Me Which See
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
Bill Veeck
Tags: True Sound Ball
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Art is the proper task of life.


Friedrich Nietzsche
Tags: Life Art Proper
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There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.


Heather Graham
Tags: Women Very Lot
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
Muhammad Iqbal
Tags: People Life Which
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Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.


Shirley Hufstedler