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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.
grandmother childhood mind
My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood. Elena Roger
grandmother dna flow
By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times. Bryan Sykes
grandmother clothes feminist
Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard ! Camille Paglia
grandmother people laid-back
A lot of times people say, 'You act like a grandmother, you're just totally laid back, nothing bothers you.' Chamique Holdsclaw
grandmother differences making-a-difference
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.' Chelsea Clinton
grandmother challenges passed-away
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.
grandmother parent inspire
My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
grandmother my-grandmother
My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish. Bernie Mac
grandmother piano littles
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me. Billy Strayhorn
typewriters years space
My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that. David Sedaris
typewriters joy trying
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. Charles Kuralt
typewriters circumstances virginians
Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter. Daniel Handler
typewriters novelists poet
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. Billy Collins
typewriters chaos sickness
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning Charles Bukowski
typewriters
Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
typewriters computer
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
typewriters voice holy
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy! Allen Ginsberg
typewriters howl great-writers
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter