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american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
american-novelist create decorative exotic material
With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive. Edmund White
american-novelist exhibit form masses men public substitute usual vice
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper
american-novelist imaginary ingenuity leaving office safety skills test
Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair. Sue Grafton
american-novelist assertion doubly human humor insults known
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis
american-novelist destroyed man
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
american-novelist behavior best enter extremely human life nuances realm
Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior. Robert Ludlum
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
characters daytime kept number relate veterans
We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real. Chris Goutman
characters friend nice return spend suddenly time
There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.
characters grew influenced obviously pulled
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences. Jim Rash
characters fix hand manuscript partner written
When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it. Connie Willis
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I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is. Li Bingbing
characters draw
Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.
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When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about. Mark Billingham
characters connect improv machines movies people sort
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. Hayden Schlossberg
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When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail. Sherwood Schwartz
imaginary planet powerless protect trying
We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people. Niger Innis
imaginary life obviously ordinary rather retreat various writers
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
imaginary
These are facts, these are not imaginary things.
imaginary courses
Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary. Louis C. K.
imaginary spending time
To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people. Jane Lindskold
imaginary korean north nuclear peaceful talk
To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn, Nicholas Eberstadt
imaginary iran
AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,
imaginary land
It was so important that this not be an imaginary land. Mark Johnson
imaginary maintain needed people reasons spent
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. Rickie Lee Jones
offering flames wind
Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted. Charles Spurgeon
offering errors judging
Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings. Aiden Wilson Tozer
offering giving offering-to-god
We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.
offering care return
By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be. Chris Chocola
offering media ideas
Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice. Cathy Freeman
offer plane private response sea tigers
We are awaiting a response from the Tigers to an offer of a private sea plane for their use.
offering tickets
We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.
offering yankees guy
One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice. Derek Jeter
offering perfect culture
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines. Chang-Rae Lee
surprised
I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it. Cilla Black
surprised
What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show. Mike White
surprised
I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices. Gemma Arterton
surprised wants
In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. Tristan Bernard
surprised
I was real surprised to see him out there.
surprised talk
I was surprised they wanted to talk about education.
surprised
I was surprised that there were so many Janet Reno
surprised
I was surprised that one didn't go in too.
surprised
I was surprised I had that much time.