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characters eat economic lower next people stories wondering
I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata. Robin Hobb
characters life
I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit. John Searles
characters respond sink strongly teeth terrifies
I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go. Gillian Anderson
characters places worlds
I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different. Gale Anne Hurd
characters courage deep dig fight
We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character. Sir Woodward
characters cheesy comedy good played romantic sees serious
I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh. Laura Vandervoort
characters endless events infinite necessary novel start voice
I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it? Sue Miller
characters great life lock shock ways
I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior. Joel Edgerton
characters flash hard sort
I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories. Marc Guggenheim
dozen league playing
He's playing like he's been in the league for a dozen seasons. Howie Long
dozen figure frame save trial ways
If I were on trial for my life, I'd want a dozen mitigation specialists to figure out ways to frame this trial in ways that would save my life.
dozen half mars orbit
The first satellites go into orbit around Mars in 2008, as many as a half dozen of them, Vint Cerf
dozens elective freedom graduates impression knowledge leaving offered system
The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.
dozens elective freedom graduates graduation impression knowledge leaving offered system
The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.
dozen habit bad-habits
One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones. Napoleon Hill
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They are hosted on Yahoo! I just took three hot words, but there are dozens of others including misspellings. They are mostly phishing websites,w hich shows that the situation is out of control. Richard Cox
dozens four group north ordered people simply system women work
I've had dozens of conversations in El Salvador over the years with people who said it would be simply unthinkable for any group of low-ranking guardsmen to kill four North American women without having been ordered to do so, that the system just didn't work that way,
dozen tests ethics
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. Paul Tillich
fiction larger-than-life life-is
Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one. Sarah McLachlan
fiction principles wonder
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Rudy Rucker
fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. Ursula K. Le Guin
fiction good imagine writer
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that. Andrew Clements
fiction foot graduate high listened metal music nonfiction realized school time travel
I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel. Jen Lancaster
fiction good muscle narrative principle punch root underlying
I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion. Daniel Woodrell
fiction imagined period science thrillers
I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period. Lexa Doig
fiction science-fiction science-love
I love science fiction. Moon Bloodgood
fiction debt ceilings
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. Mike Lee
single
I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them. James Nesbitt
single work
had to work every single day of his life.
single-mom important shapes
Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted. Wes Moore
single solution
In general, to have a whole solution like that from a single vendor is really valuable.
single standard
You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.
single children mean
When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself. Jude Law
single block voice
I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it. Katie Couric
single loyalty self
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. Mark Twain
single brother loneliness
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. Miguel de Unamuno
whom
The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.