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More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel. Doug Liman
bourne chance discovered domestic few halves ignored life steps
The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game' was the chance to go a few more steps in that direction. In fact, I discovered this whole other world that I had ignored in the 'Bourne' franchise, which is the domestic life of a spy, and how you make the two halves of your life coexist.
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I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
bourne came identity offered
Right before The Bourne Identity came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. Matt Damon
bourne certainly deal jason stuff type
I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with. Platon
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Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking. Pierce Brosnan
bourne eight huge legend months
Before 'The Bourne Identity' opened, 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' and 'All the Pretty Horses' had been huge bombs, ... I went eight months without getting an offer.
bourne values
The thing with the Bourne movies is that they're so big in scope and the production value is so high and it takes so much organization. Julia Stiles
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We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real.
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There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.
characters grew influenced obviously pulled
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences. Jim Rash
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When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it. Connie Willis
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I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is. Li Bingbing
characters draw
Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.
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When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about. Mark Billingham
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A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. Hayden Schlossberg
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When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail. Sherwood Schwartz
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My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture. Tom Bissell
fictional playing
It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character. Christian McKay
fictional fifth
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade. Cary Fukunaga
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When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works. Allan Gurganus
fictional remains
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
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I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. Annie Baker
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I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. David Guterson
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The story could be set in some fictional place, but it wasn't. They made it personal. They plopped it down in a specific place. People in a small town take a lot of pride in who they are, and that's not who they are. This isn't New York. And then set it in 1963, right? In 1963, they'd make fun of a man if he wore shorts.
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I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel. Julia Glass
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Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. Charles Dickens
heart thinking broken
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
heart men expectations
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
heart night cities
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
heart literature emotion
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
heart soul tears
But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
heart lips my-heart
I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart
heart faithful world
He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
heart stronger tears
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
history who-we-are way
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
history want done
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
history social shank
History is the shank of the social sciences. C. Wright Mills
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese
history want grants
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant
history
When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
history
History! Read it and weep!
history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
randy wide
The play worked, ... Randy was wide open. Jason Taylor
ransom stubborn well-said
Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one. C. S. Lewis
randomness
Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible. Ben Casnocha
range wider worked
Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography. Mario Testino
range scarcely work
If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work. Tom Hodgkinson
range-rover used range
I used to have the Range Rover LR3, which I loved very, very much. Brian Johnson
rand
I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.
range remarkable
She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.
ran since
Since he ran in the Dwyer he started getting better and better,