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“When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works.”

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Linda Seger

Linda Seger is an American screenwriter born on August 27, 1945. She is renowned for her profound understanding of scriptwriting and her extensive practical experience in the field. more

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.”

Source: The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

“When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.”

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Author:Lou Holtz

“Whatever your eye falls on. For it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.”

World Needs Mind Eye Fall Answers This World Draws Concerts What You Love Incumbents

Book:The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

Source: The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

“I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.”

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Author:Mary Rose O'Reilley

“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.”

“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more than the language itself can convey about how welcome and safe I am what the expectations are and where to find food. Buddhist words come from another dialect from the people over the mountain. I've become pretty fluent in Buddhist it helps me to see my home country differently but it will never be speech I can feel completely at home in.”

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