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writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing way better-person
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. Brenda Ueland
writing exercise perspective
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled. Jane Hirshfield
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing important eternal
Write only of what is important and eternal. Anton Chekhov
writing intelligent men
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.
played
I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done. Charles Terry
players score three time
I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.
play female different
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. Barbara Stanwyck
play acting too-much
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me. Carice van Houten
player thinking games
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. C. S. Lewis
player europe nba
The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places. Dikembe Mutombo
play intellectual growth
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth. Bruno Bettelheim
play space interesting
Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting Bruce Willis
play important vacuums
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. Brian May
long hours long-hours
I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.
long people saws
You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you? Brian Andreas
long understanding forests
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature. Jane Goodall
long people trouble
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome. Carson McCullers
long done pondering
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry. Charles Darwin
long-ago long laziness
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do. Jane Welsh Carlyle
long want minutes
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. Susan B. Anthony
long problem dear
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life. Dirk Benedict
long important united-states
Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States. Bernie Sanders