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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.
oxen two foxes
One ox, two oxen. One fox, two foxen. Jenny Lawson
oxen commodity standards
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison. Karl Marx
oxen hair pairs
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. James Howell
oxen sea giving
Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old. Ralph Waldo Emerson
oxen fats should
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. Samuel Johnson
genius twelve percent
Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent. Dick Vitale
genius incompleteness genius-and-madness
The true genius shudders at incompleteness. Edgar Allan Poe
genius able
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. Deepak Chopra
genius fool
A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius. Abdul Kalam
genius slave distinction
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman. Abraham Lincoln
genius irish-poet
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
geniuses good
Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour. Fred Schneider
genius
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. Maude Adams
genius want
These are the times when a genius wants to live. Abigail Adams