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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
film certain made
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made. Alan Rickman
film made love-films
I love films that are made with almost no budget. Alan Moore
film embarrassment
My films are about embarrassment. Alan Bennett
film driven made
I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment. Alain Resnais
film reason reactions
For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.
film appeals relatability
The great appeal of film is its relatability. Akira Kurosawa
film-directing common problem
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
film made shows
I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking. David Shapiro
film crew film-crew
When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew. Bryce Dallas Howard
notes record
The only record we have are your notes and your recollection. David Stern
notes rapid third
When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone. Sunny Murray
notes mines
There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. William Shakespeare
notes straight
When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer. Grant Tolbert
notes novel
There's never a false note in a Berg novel. Augusten Burroughs
notes
You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing. Eddie Van Halen
notes precisely remain
So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text, Donald Rumsfeld
notes made
I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again. Christy Mathewson
notes wells pianist
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own. David Benioff