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One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of e

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that theyre a lead. I think thats a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. – Melissa Rosenberg

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Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But Ive written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, Ive done it all. – Melissa Rosenberg

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Fear
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I love Charlie, Billy Burkes character. Writing for him is so spectacular, hes so funny and wry and every scene hes in he just takes. Theres a scene in Eclipse where Bella tells him shes a virgin, and its the funniest, most awkward scene Ive ever seen on film. – Melissa Rosenberg

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funny
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Melissa Rosenberg
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Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and its our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, its a challenge – but if youre not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. Youre just taking up space. – Melissa Rosenberg

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Patience
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Id like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. – Susie Orbach

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Failure

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldnt keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I dont regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely dont want to go into! – Agnetha Faltskog

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Failure

There is no failure except in no longer trying. – Elbert Hubbard

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Failure

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure. – Arthur C. Danto

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Failure

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I dont want to produce anymore small or independent movies because its just too hard these days. – John Cusack

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For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. – James Payn

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If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end. – Jennifer Connelly

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