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Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.
Freedom
Kindness
Respect
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
Graduation
Hurt
Inspirational
You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
Fall
Graduation
Numbers
Decisions are made by those who show up.
Decision
Made
Shows
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Good Writers
Great Writers
Stealing
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
Faces
Rooms
Your Face
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Internet
Reality
Tvs
The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.
Drug
Problem
Real
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
People
Smart
Stupid
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
Rooms
Smart
Thinking
I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.
Doors
Perfect
Writing
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
Character
Storytelling
Wall
An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
Artist
Jobs
Lucky
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
Hate
White
Writing
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
Differences
Hbo
Nice
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
Government
People
Together
Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.
Fool
May
Stories
You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
Want
Want Something
Writing
Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.
Like Facebook
Night
Week
People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.
Drama
Life
Real
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