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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't."
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"The beginning is always today."
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"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."
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"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
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"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
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"In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season."
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"I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom."
Writing
"You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies."
Character
"The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments."
Cause
"I write because I can't imagine not writing."
Writing
"If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged."
Character
"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind."
Art
"I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality."
Nothing
"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions."
Reading
"If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes."
Beginning
"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."
Work
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