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One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#actually #assume #audience #because #become

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#american #american cities #angeles #cities #consumption

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#anything #asean #assuming #going #improving

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#along #assume #begun #community #dialogue

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#art #art form #associated #commerce #consumed

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#awesome #characters #grand #look #me

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.' ↗

— Rita Rudner

#beach #broadway #companies #did #finally

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#agreement #ask #assumptions #avoid #clearly

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. ↗

— John Ruskin

#embodied #greatest #greatest artist #greatest number #his

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. ↗

— Richard Russo

#another #assumes #authors #begin #end