A Quote by Anne Lamott
Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
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I tend to let the chips fall where they may. I don't know if that's right or wrong.
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Your dad would stake me out to freeze if I let you fall and hurt yourself." He offered me his arm, which I latched onto gratefully. "He wouldn't stake you out," I panted as we forced our way through the hard top layer of snow that was almost thigh deep. "He'd just shoot you." "Well that's a comfort.
So for me, it's just continue to go out and work hard and do what I've been coached and let the other guys take advantage of what they do successfully and then just let the chips fall where they may.
I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.
I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.
My thing is, everything I do, I leave it out there and let the chips fall where they may.
There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
I have such respect for guest actors. They don't know all the characters as deeply as the regulars, and the cast isn't your family, so you have more at stake.
I just go out there and play my game and let the chips fall where they may.
I try and do the right things most of the time and let the chips fall where they may.
The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.
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