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“Dare to dream, live with passion. Make your life an epic extraordinary adventure!”

Dream Passion Adventure Extraordinary Dare Epic Dare To Dream Live With Passion

Author:Nik Halik

“The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.”

Age Heroism Epic Artillery

Author:Ernest Renan

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

Writing Laughing Cutting Style Jokes Epic Grammar Exclamation Exclamation Points

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.”

Ifs World War Stories Written Budgets War Of The Worlds Giants Epic World War Z

Author:Max Brooks

“Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.”

States Film United Powerful United States Issues Epic Demian

Author:Demian Bichir

“From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.”

Stories Groups Remains Casts Screens Versions Epic Ensemble Inception Epic Stories

Author:Bill Condon

“Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.”

Way Kind Together Imagination Technology Brands Collections New Ways Epic Cliche Comprehensive New Technology Brand New Milestone

Author:Joe Dante

“Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.”

Said Attitude Epic Symbolic Exhibits Epic Poetry

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.”

Ifs Fall Species Poetry Is Epic Definite Saga Epic Poetry Epic Poems

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.”

Needs Has Beens Invention Epic Epic Poetry

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.”

Ifs May Spirit Successful Poet Refuse Composition Epic

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.”

Matter Behinds Style Poet Tradition Compelling Epic

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.”

Firsts Meant To Be Epic Recitation

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.”

Knows World Sometimes Values Nations Interest Materials Extraordinary Artistic Epic Up And Down

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.”

Men Kind Different Poet Conscious Determination Different Kinds Epic Epic Poems

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.”

Writing Said Dream Poetry Secret Epic Pretentious Epic Poems

Author:Laurie Anderson

“I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy.”

Soul Bigs Beautiful Novel Grew Shy Epic Graphic Artwork Graphic Novels Trilogies Stealers

Author:Michael Easton

“Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.)”

“My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.”

Ideas Play Remember Memories Acting Baby Mom Dad My Mom No Idea Titles Epic Making Up Mom And Dad Lonesome

Author:Jane Horrocks

“Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.”

Would Be Sports Gold Awards Swimming Epic Medal Meter Gold Medals Freestyle

Author:Chris Klein

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