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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.
royalties
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. Christo
royal watchers royal-family
I'm not a royal family watcher. Bill Nighy
royal causes mouths
The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble. Alastair Campbell
royal reason decline
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
royal fairness gracious
Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious. William Shakespeare
royalty virtue manners
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. Hannah More
royal geometry
Sire, there is no royal road to geometry. Euclid
royalty
He's a prig. He's royalty and he can't get over it.
royalty checks
I didn't send back any of the royalty checks. Ira Levin
irony moments wrong-things
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. Charlie Chaplin
irony humans built
You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews. Catherynne M. Valente
irony maximum universe
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. Jamie Zawinski
irony problem knows
Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem. Diane Ackerman
irony ends form
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
irony helping wonderful
Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony. Ann Beattie
irony knew shooting
We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy.
irony order
Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made.
irony glory slave
Irony is the glory of slaves. Czeslaw Milosz