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writing dust damnation
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writing tears pockets
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writing eight ideas
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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
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writing speech metaphor
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Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do! Robert Wilson
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Lean was a director always compromised with his work, but not only in directing, but also in the other technical and artistic aspects. Maurice Jarre
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Many of the artists and musicians were already committed to family gatherings or other concert appearances, ... All of us involved want to put on the best show possible, so we decided to reschedule. Dolly Parton
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people
It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. Isabella Rossellini
people
I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.
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Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.' Rick Perlstein
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People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.
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I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.
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There are not enough people out talking about the President positively. Robert Teeter
people
Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment. Roger Penrose
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My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said. Kristy Swanson
people
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour. Malorie Blackman