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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
classical-music
I listen mostly to classical music. Alexandra Fuller
classical difficulty good might point possible quantum serve several starting
There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics. Richard P. Feynman
class family ran sort
I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family. Robert Klein
class sure
Make sure you're not being put into a class of comparables that you shouldn't be, Richard Rolle
class expects face highest prosper side smile smiles society whether
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether Thomas Fuller
classroom excluded systems
Librarians, counselors, teachers, training, students, support, systems all those are excluded from the classroom expenses. Robert Lloyd
class kids liked lots
Lots of kids liked him, all different kids in his class. Tom Edwards
class freshman game guys help last played rarely seniors three year
Last year's class was great, but they did have the help of those guys, those three guys who are here and seniors now. And what made it really challenging for these three is . . . we had to play a lot of freshman and a lot of new guys. And last year we rarely played a freshman in a game like this. We didn't have to go that deep. Reggie Witherspoon
class last lunch meeting met year
Last year we met as an after-school club, but this year we are meeting as a class during lunch period. Andrew Gibson
rude making-love criticism
So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming. Edsger Dijkstra
rudeness folly knows
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none. Ben Jonson
rude examination awakening
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination. Catherine Crier
rude rays brilliant
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous! Bear Grylls
rude friendly being-rude
Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly. Edgar Friedenberg
rudeness courtesy insufferable
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. Bryant H. McGill
rude enemy literature
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. Bryant H. McGill
rude fame
The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody. Barack Obama
rude one-day cost
Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear. Brother Lawrence