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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.
successful
We had a very successful fair. We were thrilled. Susan Hayward
successful risk loser
Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.' Dick Wolf
successful unity peculiar
C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group Dennis Ritchie
successful ideas should
But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do. Deana Carter
successful enthusiasm causes
And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
successful body toady
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks. Edgar Allan Poe
successful thinking people
I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you. Eddie Vedder
successful way needs
To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better. Earl Nightingale
successful next-week years
Do, each day, all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork-or to rush blindly into your work, trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible amount of time. Don't try to do tomorrow's-or next week's-work today. It's not so much the number of the things you do but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that counts. . . . you need only to succeed in the small tasks of each day. This makes a successful day. With enough of these, you have a successful week, month, year-and lifetime.
trying
One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself. Stephen Moyer
trying
I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. Thomas Brodie-Sangster
trying
I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety. Taron Egerton
trying friendly steps
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.
trying comic come-up
When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.
trying
I try not to be overly analytical. Diane Lane
trying technique remember
I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words. Dennis Farina
trying communicate
What could be lonelier than trying to communicate? Denis Johnson
trying sin
There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all. Deborah Roberts