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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.
thoughtful law names
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. Edgar Allan Poe
thoughtful men noble
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
thoughtful soul titles
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
thoughtful taught-us intelligence
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
thoughtful ideas music-is
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
thoughtful remember
To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.
thoughtful numbers people
We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion. David J. C. MacKay
thoughtful offering helping
Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help. Abdu'l Baha
thoughtful long battle
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come. David Quammen
preparation casting emptiness
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
preparation trouble good-food
Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love. Elizabeth David
preparation rehearsal worship
The best preparation for worship is not a rehearsal, but surrender. Aiden Wilson Tozer
preparation shooting rehearsal
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set. Ben Whishaw
preparation
There’s no preparation for poetry. Charles Simic
preparation poor-planning performances
Proper preparation prevents poor performance. Charlie Batch
preparation screens display
Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays. Bill Joy
preparation failing invest-in-yourself
Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business. Mark Cuban
preparation problem injury
I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching. Edwin Moses