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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.
careers chinese connected
I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major. Charles Soule
care safe danger
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger. Charles Spurgeon
careers might brilliant
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here. Alan Rickman
careers long way
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag. Alan Moore
careers long people
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations. Alan Bradley
careers vision acting
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen. Al Pacino
careers laughing three
Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road. Al Jarreau
care may god-knows
Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can. Aiden Wilson Tozer
career choose exposure females
We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other. Linda Gray
columns entire exterior left
We gutted the entire building, ... The only things left were the exterior walls, the columns and the floors. Mike Williams
columns interested run
I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters. Ruth Rendell
columns letter phenomenon science
Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom. Gregory Benford
columns consume culture delicious europeans mental newspapers panacea space special
Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic. Jean Baudrillard
columns cut narrative teeth
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.' Charlie Pierce
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The rebel columns have been entirely destroyed and there is now only some light weapon fire near the National Assembly, but the situation is now completely under control. Idriss Deby
columns hope stop
It is my hope that partisanship will stop at the columns of the Senate. Arlen Specter
columns giant railroad turned
There were railroad spurs. You can see remnants of the boiler, compressor is still there, a giant lathe where they turned the columns on,
columns fairly market maureen narrow paul pay privilege reading seems
It seems to me that it's a fairly narrow market that's going to pay for the privilege of reading columns by Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman and such, Glenn Reynolds