Throughline Quotes

#1. The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.

Scott Raab

#2. Scene study is isolated. I suppose it's interesting, but I don't think it really teaches you about a throughline. A throughline is something you feel when you do one scene followed by another followed by another.

Glenne Headly

#3. Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

Barack Obama

#4. The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.

Isabelle Huppert

#5. Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

Amy Adams

#6. A cat, I discovered, was very much like a dog. But smaller, and without the self-esteem issues.

Matt Haig

#7. Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

Julian Clary

#9. People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

Judy Woodruff

#10. Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.

Ben Edwards

#11. Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.
It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty

Mother Teresa

#12. What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

Thelma Drake

#13. I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.

Louise Erdrich