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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.
phrases fit educated
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. Charles Dickens
phrases uncertain temper
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
phrases used wells
Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious. Ben Affleck
phrases may said
You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so. Daniel Handler
phrases idle truce
A truce to idle phrases! Aristophanes
phrases world ugly
World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation. Eliezer Yudkowsky
phrases repetition again-and-again
a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. Barbara Kingsolver
phrases annoying told-you-so
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.' Ayelet Waldman
phrases selling form
Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question. Brian Tracy
may made wells
We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us Albert Schweitzer
mayor shot
Luckily, he missed, so I shot the mayor and withdrew. Robert Maxwell
maybe step
Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in, Donald Trump
mayors york
Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures. Stephen Kinzer
maybe student
Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.
maybe
Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working, George H. W. Bush
maybe
Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know, Larry Brown
maybe realize season start
Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins. Chris Shelton
maybe playing sick
Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.