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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
ballads
Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop. Keri Hilson
ballads joan music strong wanna women
There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks. Imelda May
ballads barry coming liked musically phil rhythm rock roll stuff suppose wrote
Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from. Bobby Hatfield
ballads classic fun school
I did some classic ballads and actually some old school R&B fun stuff. It's all over the place. O. J. Simpson
ballads concert form front games helped lead repertory round sang songs work
We went over Lead Belly's repertory with him. And we helped him round it off into concert form so that when he got up in front of his audience, he sang ballads and work songs and lullabies and children's games and square-dance tunes, the whole thing. Alan Lomax
ballads said
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ballads
A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss Chrissie Hynde
ballads became british commentary form human main musical
The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
ballads informed
It was informed by the Cajun tradition, waltzes and ballads and two steps. Roger Wood
shows show-business
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. Dick Cavett
shows
I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time. Ed Sullivan
shows smartest
Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show. Monica Raymund
shows
We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,
shows
I never set out to do a sketch show. Demetri Martin
shows
I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character. Tracie Thoms
shows prepared bits
The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show. Brian Henson
shows whenever
Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me. Callie Khouri
shows strangest-secret
What's going on in the inside shows on the outside. Earl Nightingale