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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.
knives doctors drug
[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing next to the orderly, Georgie, both of us on drugs, looking down at a patient with a knife sticking up out of his face. 'What seems to be the trouble?' he asked. Denis Johnson
knives fundamentals eating
Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess. Dick Williams
knives trying balance
I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work. Abel Ferrara
knives mad wife
Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. Charles Stuart Calverley
knives expression spoons
It's like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife. Alanis Morissette
knives scar slips
My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife. David Lange
knives steak
Never lick a steak knife. Dave Barry
knives want use
If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife. Catherynne M. Valente
knives patterns stuff
If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough! Charles Baudelaire
played
Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they. John Calipari
players
Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference. Jim Leyland
plays
Make one or two more plays than they do. Karl Dorrell
players stop takes
L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.
playing
Leon is playing better and better every week.
played second shoes stop tie together
Leah played exceptionally well in the first half. In the second half, they did everything but tie her shoes together to try and stop her.
player scouting
Scouting is something I'll be able to do later, but a player can play only so long.
player scouting
Scouting and player development are the R&D of baseball, Tim Purpura
playing since
So he started playing every day and, since then, he's been doing very well.