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“Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.”

Character Fiction Materials Tvs Independent Studios Driven Theatre Partners Developing Diverse Cables Non Fiction Amy Slate Producing Movies

Author:Meredith Vieira

“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.”

Ideas Success Creativity Possibility Unique Innovation Driven Bucks

Book:Sam Walton: Made In America

Source: Sam Walton: Made In America

“I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.”

Thinking Character Silence Quiet Red Driven Dragons Lambs Thrillers

Author:Emily Watson

“I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.”

Character Action Driven

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.”

Humans Life Is Language Progress Evolution Notion Driven Human Life Apprehension

Book:Adventures of Ideas

Source: Adventures of Ideas

“Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.”

“Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.”

Needs Opinion News Flow Driven Mediums Discussion Links Fluid Visitors

Author:Fred Wilson

“What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.”

Inspirational Has Beens Art Book Different Fine Internet Happenings Theater Dance Critics Disappear Driven Thrive Reporters Refugee Roger Fine Arts Reviewers Deforestation Movie Critic

Author:James Wolcott

“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.”

People Thinking Way Poor Marriage Car Intelligent Average Intelligence Driven Thinker Highly Intelligent

Author:Edward de Bono

“I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.”

Exciting Guitar Driven Coming Out

Author:Al Yankovic

“People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.”

People Way May Stories Proud Drink Prejudice Driven Willingness Up To You Visiting

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.”

Profit Driven Ideology

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.”

Said Passion One Day Driven Practicals Shock Sensible Collapse Forethought

Book:Alta: Joust #2

Source: Alta: Joust #2

“It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.”

Thinking Men World Way Writing Long Enough Play Driven Flats Long Way Stale Girl Interrupted

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own existence--and every achievement is an expression of it.”

Ifs Form Desire Values Existence Expression Achievement Highest Driven Our Love Motor

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”

People Needs Has Beens Force Theory Capitalism Claims Fundamentals Profit Driven Alternatives Communist Capitalist Regimes Brutality Marxist Marxist Theory

Author:Cornel West

“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.”

“Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.”

Mind Hands Today Past Memories Forget Fate Tree Sea Sky Crazy Tomorrow Sorrow Let Me Wave Driven Rings Ruins Smoke Beach Sand Frightened Take Me Diamond Frozen Twisted Circus Of My Mind Windy

Author:Bob Dylan

“He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.”

Lost Loses Sorrow One Day Details Driven Obliged Request Complicity Cosette

Book:The Works of Victor Hugo

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

Has Beens Motivational Religion Faith Belief My Own Prayer Attitude Worry Humility Conviction Driven Knees Overwhelming Insufficient

Book:The Lincoln treasury

Source: The Lincoln treasury

“We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.”

Giving Doe Done Past Turns Pleasure Grace Gratitude Promise Ethics Delight Driven Contemplating Transforming Debtors Promise Of The Future

Author:John Piper

“Tallstar stiffened and his neck fur bristled. 'Windclan was driven from the forest once,' he hissed. 'Never again. Our territory is ours, and we'll fight for it. Is Thunderclan with us?”

Fighting Driven Forests Necks Territory Fur

Author:Erin Hunter

“It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible ... They design telephones to look great, but they sound horrible. I think it was about time that the other senses were celebrated.”

Thinking World Looks Seems Eye Sound Cities Design Driven Senses Horrible Telephones

Author:Bjork

“The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.”

People Trying Humans Has Beens Whole Speak Ability Race Wonderful Subjects Refuse Driven Insane Human Race Drains Realist Dealing With It Damned Human Race

Author:Ray Bradbury

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”

Country Hate Politics Crime Citizens Despair Notion Driven Likes Radical Patriotism Disturbed Idiotic Good Citizen

Author:H. L. Mencken

“It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.”

May Long Important Hard Running Easier Driven Brilliant Long Runs

Book:Congo

Source: Congo

“But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.”

Stories Rooms Fine London Driven Mysterious Temper Royalty Visitors Devilish

Author:C. S. Lewis

“He stared past her to the place at the other end of the dining table where Regina would sit as his wife. If she were here. If he hadn’t driven her away. “I’m not sure I know how to love, Louisa.” She took his hand. “Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.”

Ifs Knows Ends Hard Hands Past Easy Know How Wife Love You Findings Tables Driven Silly Not Sure Dining How To Love Being Silly Finding Someone Dining Table

Book:To Pleasure a Prince

Source: To Pleasure a Prince

“I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred love for the good in humanity that was the basis of his entire career. He loved the humanity that could not understand or fully accept him; I, in the midst of the same human race, became a thinking machine.”

Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen

“Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.”

Men Needs Looks Goal Example Easier Despair Window Driven Incapable Attainment

Book:Flying to America: 45 More Stories

Source: Flying to America: 45 More Stories

“He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”

Knows Art Artist Inspiring Wonder Creatures Busy Driven Demon Too Busy

Author:William Faulkner

“she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.”

“In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.”

Real Lasts Turns Evil Justice Pleasure Doubt Pieces Century Beats Daughter Driven Decades Real Life Insane Queens No Doubt Intolerance Earning Addict Twentieth Century Heroin Hacks Troll

Author:Dean Koontz

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”

Ifs World Poor Enemy Rich Land Ambition Remains Greed Hunger Driven Naked Desert Empires Construction Pretense Slaughter Hail Stripping

Author:Tacitus

“I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.”

People Thinking Knows Want Writing Young Teach Source Driven Demon Older People Young Writers

Author:William Faulkner

“A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.”

Want May Matter Done Facts Would Be Christian Social Black Religious Driven God Love Repeats Inward Neighbour

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.”

Seeking Driven Abstraction Seeking Truth

Book:Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

“If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.”

People Ifs Land Jew Driven Chosen Convince Torn Jerusalem

Author:Martin Luther

“When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.”

Want Pain Justice Rain Mercy Charity Driven Ease Warmth Sunlight Clients Degrade Peace And Justice Extremity

Book:The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun

Source: The Citadel of the Autarch: Urth: Book of the New Sun

“The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”

Men World Way Needs Firsts Humans Has Beens Different Whole Might Voice Views Stupid Intelligent Accidents Driven Different Ways Sheep Might Have Been Goats Shepherds Small Gods

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.”

World Years Light Night Time Hours Saws Pure Shadow Eternity Moved Train Rounds Calm Driven Rings Endless Spheres

Book:A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

“Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.”

Ifs Wells Changed Pride Genius Shots Driven Psychological Tolerate Alchemy Southerner

Author:Florence King

“She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so powerful, but that the world was so weak. It could be read, certainly, in its weakness, as on days when the sun baked fallen apples in orchards and the valley smelled like cider, and cold nights when Jordan had driven Chadds Ford for dinner and the tires of her Chevrolet had crunched on the gravel driveway; but the world was fungible only as images. Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.”

People Ifs World Real Night Enjoy Powerful Sun Cold Becoming Weakness Weak Dinner Driven Fallen Apples Valleys Tire Real Things Jordan Orchard Gravel Driveway Cider Cold Night Chevrolet

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.”

Doe Running Waiting Walks Safety Scared Driven Senses Floating Dove Hawks Allure

Author:Rumi

“Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.”

Knows Looks Dies Water Sun Blood Moon Driven Gross Wrists Slits Bathtubs

Author:Holly Black

“They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.”

People Earth Four Cold Ocean Hunger Corners Driven France Plague Tumors

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.”

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