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“When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.”

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Author:Ryan Tedder

“There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.”

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Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History