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bizarre
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.' Alexander Payne
bizarre happen history prevent professors realizing
The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre things really happen Bertrand Russel
bizarre editor might notion vague word
I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I didn't speak a word of Chinese. There were flaws in my plan, admittedly. Katie McGrath
bizarre bring curtain opening preferred resolve second straight time
It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through. Twyla Tharp
bizarre huge manages positive stay
She's a huge fighter. She manages to stay very positive in some bizarre circumstances in matches. Lindsay Davenport
bizarre happening people
I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood. Richard Matheson
bizarre cut energy last president solve suggested tax
Last week, the president suggested his tax cut will solve energy crisis. That is a bizarre and disconnected idea. Rosa DeLauro
bizarre found french guilty
It is a bizarre thing because I was the only one who was found guilty when the whole of the French establishment was involved, George Soros
bizarre extremely fine man private situation
It is a bizarre situation for a man who is very private and an extremely fine gentleman.
editors pages today
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it. Diane Wakoski
editors chaos theory
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. David Mitchell
editors two scott-fitzgerald
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal. Dave Barry
editors trying magazines
Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank. David Brock
editors understanding different
I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist. Ed Helms
editors newspapers show-me
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. Arthur Christiansen
editors cost definitions
I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs. Dean Koontz
editors agents letters
I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back. Daniel H. Wilson
editors two people
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm. Bill Nye
might goes-on wells
We might as well die as to go on living like this. Charlie Chaplin
might potatoes
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! Charles Dudley Warner
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. Charles Dickens
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
might god-bless bless
God blesses us so that we might bless others! Charles Stanley
might wells ifs
I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact! Alan Moore
might quiet
Dead … might not be quiet at all. Chris Bohjalian
might naked world
Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out.
might tools ifs
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.
notion people
People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert. Michelle Branch
notion paid politics
I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is. Nicholas Haslam
notions
We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be, John Doe
notion privilege waiting
I'm not about waiting anymore. I'm off the privilege notion now; I'm on to fairness. Donna Brazile
notion perhaps
I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid. Chris Eigeman
notion exaggerated knows
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. Albert Camus
notion ought
We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.
notion packaged products
The notion of packaged products is really going to go away.
notion somewhere
The notion is probably somewhere between $250,000 to $350,000. Connie Mack
vague
You can't be vague on things like this.
vague
The legislation is pretty vague in that respect.
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
words-of-wisdom records trials
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
words-you-say
The words you say never live up to the words in your head. Chris Cornell