Maria Semple Much of the time in the writer’s room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn’t expecting. – Maria Semple Audience Quotes Challenging Quotes Expecting Quotes Sideways Quotes Spent Quotes Story Quotes Surprising Quotes Tighter Quotes Time Quotes Writers Quotes It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict. One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.
Mary Wortley Montagu I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for ‘Tis only to them that they are blessings. – Mary Wortley Montagu
Jose Marti A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. – Jose Marti
Dave Haywood The very first day that Hillary came over, we were working on a song called ‘All We’d Ever Need.’ But we never even thought about it until we had written 5, 6, 7 songs. Then we played our first show, and we all enjoyed it so much. We felt like it was something a special and different. So from there we decided to do Lady Antebellum. – Dave Haywood
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