Home / Quotes / Quote by Max D. Adams

Quote by Max D. Adams

“taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one.”

Quote by Max D. Adams

Author

Max D. Adams, born in 1961, is a talented screenwriter whose works have had a profound impact on the film and television industry. Known for his unique perspective and emotional depth in storytelling, Adams has made significant contributions to the field. more

You May Also Like

“We are 'writers,' we are not supposed to be interested in filthy lucre, we are supposed to be starry eyed artistes. ... In Reality Land, we all want to maybe put dinner on the table once in a while, but in Fantasy Land, we are not supposed to be even interested in money because we are so caught up in the emotion of it all. That's an illusion, but people like it and it makes us feel holy or something so we all play along.”

People Want Feels Play Reality Emotion Fantasy Land Holy Illusion Tables Caught Dinner Supposed To Be Caught Up Filthy

Author:Max D. Adams

“the only real rule I know in writing is, Don't be boring. Sleeping people don't read a word you write or hear a thing you say. How can they? They are asleep. So don't put anyone to sleep, and you will probably do okay.”

People Knows Writing Real Sleep Okay Boring

Author:Max D. Adams

“The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.”

Kind Law Certain Evil Exercise Institutions Terror Propaganda Affected Holocaust

Author:Mary Jo Leddy

“The way back is always shorter.”

Author:Maya Deren

“It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.”

Moments Might Joy Desire Levels Break Fire Higher Scene Draws Crowds Disaster Flames Intensity Unusual Break Through Higher Level Morbidity

Author:Maya Deren

“I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.”

World Want Littles I Can Matter Party Audience Window Nonsense Tickets Paparazzi

Author:Kathy Griffin

“So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.”

People World Years Dark White Century Singing Died Dancing Snow Snow White Singing Dancing

Book:The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

Source: The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

“Any great gift of power or talent is a burden ... But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law.”

Ifs World Way May Done Law Born Talent This World Burden Great Gifts

Book:The Dark Is Rising

Source: The Dark Is Rising

“Hope lights up our darkness.”

Light Hope Darkness Light Up

Author:Celia Fremlin

“Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.”

Mean Goes On Infatuation Inconvenient

Book:Uncle Paul

Source: Uncle Paul