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“A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”
Source: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
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American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters 1941Related quotes

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