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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.
understanding gabriel world
Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like. Alexandra Adornetto
understanding waste life-is
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for. Eleanor Roosevelt
understanding democracy limits
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. Elizabeth Drew
understanding needs looks
Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding. Eliot Spitzer
understanding deep-thought gains
Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves. David Jenkins
understanding bangs consciousness
I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness. Edward Witten
understanding
I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job. John Sweeney
understanding value worked
She's understanding the value of that. She worked ridiculously hard.
understanding
'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.
sloth laziness virtue
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. Charles Caleb Colton
sloth unreliability answers
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability. Charlie Munger
sloth laziness hard
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. William Shakespeare
sloth laziness easy
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. Benjamin Franklin
sloth overcoming diligence
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
sloth lazy agnostic
You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass. Conor Cruise O'Brien
sloth paradise laziness
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. Amos Bronson Alcott
sloth apes court
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
sloth horror awake
Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.