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Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.
Robert McKee
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Robert McKee
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
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When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try to make up in quantity and complexity what they lack in quality. That's bullshit! They're just hiding their bullshit!
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