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writing dust skeletons
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us. Alexandra Fuller
writing giving people
We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points. Chris Eyre
writing dust damnation
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. Charles Spurgeon
writing tears pockets
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
writing eight ideas
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good. Dick Van Dyke
writing sometimes enough
Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you. Diane Kruger
writing analysis fiction
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. Dennis Potter
writing speech metaphor
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
clothes died false modesty
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born. Mark Twain
clothes environment good home life might money rather spend vacations
My environment is important to me. I'd rather give up other things in my life - I might not take vacations or spend a lot of money on clothes - so that I can live in a home I feel really good about. Max von Essen
clothes england fashion music
Music in England is like clothes. It's a fashion thing. But we're still doing the same kind of music we were doing at the beginning. We've just matured. Derrick McKenzie
clothes country cross devote lives rest validate
Now we have to devote the rest of our lives to cross country to validate the clothes.
clothes georgia gone home orleans
New Orleans was my home, ... Everything we own is gone now. I used to go home to Georgia and wouldn't have any clothes because everything was (in New Orleans). Now it's going to be the same way.
clothes paramount wearing
When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable. Hailee Steinfeld
clothes great hour inherently skin sort tailor work
I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it. Tina Fey
clothes entire season wear
I feel like I'm one of the Simpson's' (referring to her having to wear the same clothes for an entire season of 24) Elisha Cuthbert
clothes wit countenance
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit. Ben Jonson
lists sometimes democratic
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. David Ives
lists people ready
We have lists of people ready to do lists of things,
lists form
Lists are a form of power. A. S. Byatt
lists
Meryl Streep belongs on anybodys list of greats. Dick Cavett
lists meetings people work
When we had 3,000-person meetings, a lot of the people were not there to work on things. The meetings that we have are smaller. The mailing lists are more contained, and the work is actually proceeding better.
lists minds names putting together
We're putting together lists of names and are narrowing it down. It's important in our minds to do this quickly. But it's more important that we get the right guy. Mike Hargrove
lists make-you-happy numbing
The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy. Bret Easton Ellis
lists groceries heard
I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible. Connie Willis
lists people seen short words
There are short lists of two- or three-letter words that most people don't use. People probably haven't seen a lot of words that are key.