Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.
I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.
Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
Of course I've done stupid things in my career, and I do always seem to be in the paper, but I hate seeing myself.
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.
Come back when you grow up girl, you're still living in a paper doll world.
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it.
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.
After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
You worked your paper route, mowed the lawn, then played golf all day.
I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.
In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.
I put at the top of my paper every day, 'Never comfortable.' It's just how I feel always.
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!
I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.
I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.
I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.
Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.
I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.
What you base your happiness around?
Material, women, and large paper?
That means you inferior, not major.
The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.
I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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