#words

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that. ↗

— Brion James

#audience #either #evil #i #i can

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#doodle #form #harder #i #lot

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ↗

— Mencius

#enter #into #kindly #kindness #men

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey. ↗

— John Irving

#atmosphere #begin #convey #ending #happens

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position? ↗

— Joichi Ito

#am #audience #beyond #changing #compromising

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#freedom #fuzzy #human #human rights #liberty

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#different #philosophy #religion #spelling #two

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#could #ear #entered #epoch #fifteenth

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it. ↗

— Storm Jameson

#laid #less #moment #talked #words

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#must #our #our lives #read #religion