This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it … - Amy Sherman-Palladino

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As you learn to TRUST YOURSELF something miraculous happens. You begin to TRUST THE PROCESS you are living and the miracles life brings!

Amy Sherman-Palladino

This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.

Banging, Easy, Keep, People, Plugging, Writing

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Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

Angry, Girl, Loving, Mind, Rebellious, Silly

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

Certain, Drama, Like, Pace, Rhythm, Style

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Character, Characters, Jobs, Show, Voices, Writing

I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, "This feels off-kilter for this particular person. "

Character, Dictate, Process, Thinking, What If

You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

Bait, Cutting, Dead, Path, Things

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