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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? Dennis Potter
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. Dennis Potter
awkward beauty behind beyond close love reason sees
Love is not blind. In fact, it is all seeing. It sees the beauty in the person beyond those 'ugliness'. It sees the reason behind those awkward actions. It sees the person behind those masks...Love sees through even after we close our eyes. john bejo
awkward economic hour selling shoes
Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition. Sophia Amoruso
awkward either girl good harry liar man moment says
Me and Harry are not very good with women. I've got better now. But I think any man ever who says he has never had an awkward moment with a girl is a liar. He's either a liar or he's delusional. Dan Radcliffe
awkward caught feeling finishing foot forward good knee looking position season
My foot got caught in an awkward position and I rolled my knee on it. I was looking forward to finishing the season strong. I was feeling good in there and it's just frustrating right now. Curtis Sanford
awkward goal leg lies-and-lying lose truth
One leg by truth supported, one by lies,They sidle to the goal with awkward pace,Secure of nothing -- but to lose the race. William Cowper
awkward england roots showing side
Occasionally their New England roots make them a little embarrassed and awkward about showing that side of themselves. Tom Rath
awkward legal ok reasons scene watched worked
My first ever sex scene in a movie was in 'Superbad.' Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward, but it worked out OK because when I watched the movie with her, the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened. Christopher Mintz-Plasse
awkward ham world
Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage. Chris Cornell
awkward coaching difficult fine hit time
If I was coaching him, I'd fine him $100 every time he hit a groundstroke, ... In his most difficult moments, he was more awkward than I anticipated. Andre Agassi
phrases fit educated
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. Charles Dickens
phrases uncertain temper
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. Charles Dickens
phrases used wells
Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious. Ben Affleck
phrases may said
You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so. Daniel Handler
phrases idle truce
A truce to idle phrases! Aristophanes
phrases world ugly
World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation. Eliezer Yudkowsky
phrases repetition again-and-again
a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. Barbara Kingsolver
phrases annoying told-you-so
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.' Ayelet Waldman
phrases selling form
Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question. Brian Tracy