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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 two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
writing journalism sometimes
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. Anthony Shadid
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing emotional levels
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. Ben Marcus
writing reader
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
writing night awake
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. Barbara Kingsolver
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.
writing funny-things discipline
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
mirrors looks twenties
I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself. Janet Jackson
mirrors laughing
Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either. Jane Wagner
mirrors hair half
An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes. Debra Winger
mirrors order silence
We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
mirrors media amusement
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. Edmund Muskie
mirrors glasses feel-good
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass. Andrea Gibson
mirrors judging history
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides. Alphonse de Lamartine
mirrors looks vain
I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself. Alessandra Ambrosio
mirrors location world
In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world Alfred North Whitehead
vanity curiosity shows
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. Blaise Pascal
vanity modesty sometimes
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. Anna Jameson
vanity television lost
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. Clive Anderson
vanity office fool
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop
vanity hands america
Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists. Ali Khamenei
vanity needs amelie
When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more. Amelie Nothomb
vanity mortification dies
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. Alice Thomas Ellis
vanity dignity vulnerable
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable. Alfred de Musset
vanity cowardice source
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. Andre Dubus