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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.
odds swear truth
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? Matthew Prior
odds law ideas
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. Elizabeth Emken
odds seven slash willing
I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat. James Woods
odds house graves
I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Charlie Munger
odds long actors
I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long! Bill Nighy
odds generations stories
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. Bruce Feiler
odds patterns principles
The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout Bruce Kovner
odds errors safety
No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error. Benjamin Graham
odds others perhaps solace work writers
Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop. Gayle Lynds
two people attention
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours. Chris Cornell
two church world
There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.
two numbers records
I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up. Dennis Wilson
two use unix
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX, Dennis Ritchie
two long sticks
You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches Dennis Eckersley
two lines roles
When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet. Denholm Elliott
two half narrative
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal Edgar Allan Poe
two together size
We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ... Eleanor Roosevelt
two world development
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.