Inevitable Quotes

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. David Mamet
Great Struggle Hero Seen Inevitable Drama Out Something Civilisation He Towards Him Discover Goal Discovery End Did Which Lesser Specific Kept Basis Set
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable. David Mitchell
Language Degree Faithful Inevitable Translation Believe Only New Any May Such A Thing Thing Desirable Adaptation
I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon. David Rakoff
You Writing Will Inevitable Profit Type Project Books Worrying About Simply Soon Between Come Beyond Because Makes How Very Person Being Acknowledging Next Who Why Awful Things
As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced. Dennis C. Blair
Democracy Enemy Complicated Inevitable Other Extreme Those Must Embraced See Some Slowly Superficial Case Developing Contained Hand Often China Views Who Appeal Things
I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of philosophy about it. I didn't go into mourning. Diana Rigg
You Beauty Inevitable Philosophy Bit Those About Never Go Mourning Anything Things
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction. Dinaw Mengestu
Best Reality People Inevitable Sister Tool Marketing Say Those Written Generic Between Obviously She Well How Did Die Dies Autobiography Difference Where Fiction Happens Story Use Your Show Grasp
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. Douglas Haig
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It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do. Duncan Sheik
You Will Inevitable Environment Influence Your
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. Edward Hopper
Work Vision Inevitable Find Intrusion Disturbing Part Most Always Itself Replacement Proceeds Interested Working Elements
I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state - and we have to make this choice, it is inevitable - then my choice is a Jewish democratic country. Ehud Olmert
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Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education. Eliza Dushku
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As with anything creative, change is inevitable. Enya
Change Creative Inevitable Anything
I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong. Eric Ries
Work You Work Hard First Half Inevitable Enough Constantly Network Only Part Wrong Being Movie Social Succeed Then Hard Lived Believed Hardest Hardest Part Actually Grueling
Whenever you have a good idea, it's inevitable some people will criticize it and deny it. Some people will try to prove it's wrong. Eugene Parker
Good You People Try Will Some People Inevitable Criticize Some Wrong Idea Prove Deny Whenever Good Idea
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others. Evgeny Morozov
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A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. Frank Gehry
People Finished Important Inevitable Design Think Out Inside Inside-Out Somehow Finished Product Like Looks Lot Get Spaces Create Product Humanistic
I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship. Gabriel Iglesias
You Inevitable Down Top Guy Prevent Join Take Like Know Spot Always Go Ship Forever Going Just Next Helped
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins. Gary Shteyngart
Love Natural First Inevitable Progression Our Our Lives Born Feisty Couple Because Years Begins Decline Natural Progression Then Really Lives Things
I gain weight and lose it again in inevitable cycles. Gerard Depardieu
Inevitable Lose Weight Gain Gain Weight Again Cycles
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency. Gifford Pinchot
Result Inevitable National Outgrowth Efficiency Conservation
So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them. Ginni Rometty
You Change Inevitable Believe Out How Expect Them Turn Means Things
Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable. Glenn Greenwald
Result Inevitable Virtually Hiding Stay Silent About Only Lawyers Never Rendered Advised Because Makes Hears Imprisoned Either Which Public Them
There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome. Gus Van Sant
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Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary. H. P. Lovecraft
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration. H. R. McMaster
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You have to budget time for the inevitable problems that come up with children. You have to always be ahead of the game. If your proposal is due at NASA on Friday, it has to be finished on Wednesday because, on Thursday, it could be fevers and head lice. Heidi Hammel
Time You Game Problems Finished Inevitable Lice Wednesday Could Proposal Head Thursday Budget Come Because Always NASA Due Friday Up Children Your
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