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I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. -- Danny Boyle
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. -- E. M. Forster
LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go. -- Nicole Kidman
I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats. -- Danny Boyle
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. -- Milos Forman
Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust. -- Damon Lindelof
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. -- Laurence Leamer
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all. -- Graham Nelson
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. -- Donald Trump
Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong. -- Rick Riordan
People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan -- Paul Washer
I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise. -- Richard Simmons
I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. -- Don Williams
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring -- David Brin
One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that. -- Peter Carey
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. -- Thomas Merton
The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted. -- Keith Donohue
I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy. -- Jim Rohn
Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. -- Condoleezza Rice
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. -- Alan Moore
In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding. -- Julia Glass
My writing has a lot of surprising twists. -- Brent Weeks
We turn the Cube and it twists us. -- Erno Rubik
I've always said I'm less interested in twists as I am about escalation. -- Drew Goddard
The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn. -- Christina Baker Kline
I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way. -- Evan Daugherty
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command. -- John Piper
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. -- David Brin
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential. -- Billy Gibbons
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions. -- Chester Bennington
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
There's a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isn't always pretty. -- Bob Menendez
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries. -- Hugh Mackay
Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it. -- Katrina Kaif
I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep. -- John Mayer
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful. -- Ratan Tata
It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends. -- Harbhajan Singh
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die. -- George R. R. Martin
Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned. -- Neal Shusterman
I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career. -- Rufus Wainwright
the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot. -- Anne Sexton
I love life with its twists and turns. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
My writing has a lot of surprising twists, -- Brent Weeks
The more secrets and twists in a character, the better. -- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect. -- Shannon L. Alder
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. -- Giambattista Vico
Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns. -- Judah Smith
To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together. -- Nora Roberts
No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead. -- Charlotte Eriksson
I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot. -- Rachel Gibson
I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre. -- Katrina Bowden
Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are -- John Perkins
The film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made. -- Peter Hambleton
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. -- Graham Greene
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger. -- James Thurber
Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane. -- Kevin Barry
I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made. -- Juliette Lewis
The rollercoaster has its ups and downs, loops and twists but enjoy the ride. We are all on it together. -- Jessie J
My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise. -- Ken Bruen
Every day is a journey filled with twists and turns. Every day, if you smile, you will feel alive, my son. -- Santosh Kalwar
Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it. -- Frank Miller
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. -- Anais Nin
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. -- Graham Greene
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. -- Graham Greene
Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists. -- John Mark Green
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. -- Anthony Horowitz
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One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination. -- Freeman Dyson
I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan. -- Ronald Reagan
Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty. -- Bob Menendez
If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with. -- John Legend
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I think 'Mistresses' is so successful because it's a mixture of intriguing storylines with lots of twists and it is rooted very strongly in reality and it's really glossy. -- Shelley Conn
War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism. -- David Burnett
There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life. -- Bill Walton
Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there's some of that too. -- Suzanne Collins
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Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside. -- Vera Nazarian
It's because I'm pregnant, Christian.He snorts, and his mouth twists into an ironic smile. If I knew getting you knocked up was going to make you eat, I might have done it earlier. -- E. L. James
I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story. -- Asghar Farhadi
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists. -- Paul Kane
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project. -- Austin Grossman

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