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I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I’ve seen in the country since John Kennedy.

John Irving

In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.
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Scene Treatment Voice
The gardener had a dread of small women; he’d always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
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Dread Gardener Size
But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.
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Busy People Thinking
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
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Brain Heart Poison
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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Memories Monsters Thinking
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
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Die Dies Everybody
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you’re going to be in this business, if you’re going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
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Actor Skins Thinking
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you
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Memorable Running Thinking
I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.
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Dying Finding Student Yourself
…every study of the gods, of everyone’s gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
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Innocent Study Vengeance
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.
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Dark Mom Mother
A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.
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Boiled Life Sentences
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there’s no one else around who’s enough like youself to understand you.
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Adolescence Enough Like
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Stories Victim Writing
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.
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People Sound Trying
When you legislate personal belief, you’re in violation of freedom of religion.
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Belief Freedom Religion Violation

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