#tory

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#faces #guide #history #inertia #means

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#grief #king #plot #queen #story

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#guess #history #i #lot #played

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#contradictory #her #him #important #label

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#few #few men #history #ii #imprint

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#fantasy #how #i #much #nature

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#bad #bored #get #hard #i

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting. ↗

— John Foster

#elements #interesting #just #make #more

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appealing #beyond #desire #expectations #history