29 Pacing Quotes for You to Enjoy

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank. Aaron Sorkin

Feeling Spend Days Like Ideas Most Around Walking Pacing Plank

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing. Andrae Crouch

God Me People Think Everything Religious About He Stuff Supposed Because Accomplish Going Wants Pacing Help

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever. Arthur Hiller

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We live in a zoo, and we get to share all our animals with the people who come in. We really put our animals first, and then the staff, and then the visitors. The animals aren't pacing; they're all happy. When you touch an animal, it ultimately touches you. Bindi Irwin

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene. Craig McCracken

Jokes Job Action Every Mood Out Scene Write Dialog Artists Decide Pacing Etc Storyboard Plan Shot Show Whole

A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing. Edwin Catmull

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure. Garth Ennis

You Sense Mini Give Proper Closure Story Pacing Series

When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply because you want to make it a good story. When do you introduce your characters? When do you put them onstage, when do you take them off the stage? How do you weave the different threads of the narrative together? H. W. Brands

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You always hear that politics is a function of timing and pacing. Jim Gray

Politics You Timing Always Hear Pacing Function

I've seen 'Goodfellas' a hundred times, and one of the things that I take away from that movie is dynamic pacing and energy. I just think that film is sort of a paragon of excellence in filmmaking and the compression of narrative. Joe Russo

I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window. John Oates

Consistency Mood Out Window About Stuff Like Concerned Making Stylistic Goes Pacing Realized Really Things Album Coherent

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it. Josh Lucas

Comedy Energy Drama Than Pacing Much Hard Harder

I am a very firm believer in Cody Rhodes. I think he is fantastic, an absolute superstar. Unbelievable in the ring, great timing, great pacing - he's in great physical conditioning, can cut a heck of a promo, and just an all-around good guy. Kenny Omega

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What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise. Louise Gluck

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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood. Maggie Stiefvater

If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, information, supporting arguments. That would be the setup. When I'm making a documentary, the pacing of the film and the way that you sort of switch from character to character - all of those are more about storytelling than straight journalism. Marshall Curry

Character You Writing Argument Setup Statement Way Those Would Would-Be About More Journalism Supporting Documentary Sort Making Were Article Than Information Pacing Storytelling Straight Newspaper Thesis Film Switch

When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films. Marshall Curry

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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along. Nancy Kress

You Book Writing Better Drama Speeds Hooks Rapidly Vital Thriller Mystery Tension Along Genres Reader Readers Western Quick Pacing Moving Creates Certain Keep Things

I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA. Paolo Bacigalupi

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs. Paul Engle

The pacing in Tamil and Telugu is very different from Malayalam cinema. Rana Daggubati

Cinema Telugu Very Different Pacing

For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book. Rick Riordan

Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that will hook their attention. Will Hobbs

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