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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.
vocabulary use cult
Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary. Charles R. Swindoll
vocabulary
Humor is not far from my vocabulary. Edward Herrmann
vocabulary matter building
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. David Crystal
vocabulary disease opponents
In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning. Chinua Achebe
vocabulary biting opinion
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem. Charles Frazier
vocabulary going-away trying
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. Dean Koontz
vocabulary spirit common
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure. Edward Sapir
vocabulary language drawbacks
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. Elizabeth Taylor
vocabulary today diction
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language. Carl Sandburg
example persons
I'm very much a lead by example person. Alexandra Paul
example lovely people sensitive
Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie, Andrew McCarthy
examples words
Many times the words I say don't come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want. Sven Eriksson
example mayor touch
one more example of this mayor being out of touch with the neighborhoods. Scott Lang
examples time younger
Obviously, we can't go back in time and look at the Trapezium when it was still forming, so we try to find younger examples in the sky.
example great
My grandfather was a great example of his generation, Ethan Hawke
examples large people three type worthless
Now those are the two--two examples -- pimps, three. They're your third... probably the three most worthless type people in a large city. Mark Fuhrman
example motivate today
Now, this year, all it's done is motivate us more. And today is an example of that. Tony Stewart
example good powerful values
One of the most powerful things that makes us feel good is when someone we admire, appreciate, for example, values us. Nora Volkow