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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.
cliche irritating decided
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. Diana Gabaldon
cliche
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. Charles Olson
cliches face learning refuge refusing
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about. Antonia Bird
cliches eager embrace understood
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
cliches hard myths surrounded worked
This story is surrounded by myths and cliches and I worked hard to get through and find out what was true.
cliched cool life seemed
The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me. Win Butler
cliches except full obviously suspect writers
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
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A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible. Helen McCrory
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Former Gov. Knowles threw out a lot of easy cliches, and is very good at delivering them, but cliches aren't going to get Alaskans a gas pipeline.
admire
You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always. Carolina Herrera
admired george hunter michael orwell others people whose work
The people whose work I've admired are people like George Orwell and others like Michael Herr and, of course, some of Hunter S. Thompson's work. Joe Sacco
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We appreciate and admire the courageous efforts of U.S. military personnel around the world to keep our country safe and strong. And we recognize the great sacrifice that their family members also make. As a result, American Airlines is pleased to extend these special offers to military members and their loved ones.
admired certain composers mostly music nature
There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient. Alan Hovhaness
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom. Randy Forbes
admire expressing full people respect solidarity
We respect you, admire you, and we are expressing our full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and your revolution. Harry Belafonte
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What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it Richard Davis
admire coaches happen media season sit time
What he is doing this season, I think all of us - players, coaches and media - should really savor. He's having a season for the ages. ... We all need to sit back and admire it because it won't happen for a long time after this.
admire ball felt matter nine time took
We felt like every time he took the ball he was going to go nine innings, no matter what. I really admire him for that. Frank Robinson