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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 way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing thinking talking
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver
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 thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
writing down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. Augusten Burroughs
writing names errors
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
political time
a little more outreach time with the political community. Tom Umberg
political nine politics
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. Calvin Coolidge
political today serious
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. Carla Bley
political-will renewable-resources abundance
Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose. Al Gore
political democracy
...without equality there can be no democracy. Eleanor Roosevelt
political agendas sides
Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say. Dick Morris
political president campaigns
The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial. Dick Morris
political world different
We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated. Amartya Sen
political-revolution cynical democracy
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Ambrose Bierce
choices would-be financial
Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner. Jane Bryant Quinn
choices answers film
I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy. Dominic Monaghan
choices temptation pressure
No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Thomas S. Monson
choices flying cost
Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes. Ray Mabus
choices finding-yourself spirals
You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it. Ray LaMontagne
choices debt freedom-to-choose
Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don’t have the freedom to choose. Tony Benn
choices generations bigs
I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right. Tony Blair
choices surrender terrorist
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice. Tony Blair
choices september-11 events
In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind. Tony Blair