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american-author good graceful pleased writers-and-writing
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. Jack Vance
american-author films services sort stick
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me. Kevin Williamson
american-author certainly changed exterior growing safe
The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up. Beverly Cleary
american-author empowered men women
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. John Gray
american-author creating ethanol five four gasoline might percent within
Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia. Daniel Yergin
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
american-author best life love man woman
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Zane Grey
american-author countless wrote
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
american-author boy
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. Dick Bruna
knew mr petty thief
A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do? William Blake
knew second
The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win. Jarkko Nieminen
knew series worked
I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS. Kirsten Nelson
knew stick veins wrists
I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face. Kristin Gore
knew networks
When we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks. Gerry Anderson
knew rattle stay tried trying year
We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of the big things we've been trying to do all year with a young team.
knew knock lose matter
We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.
knew none somewhere
The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else. Jasper Johns
knew man playing saw
I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing. Joan Baez
lines possible power rain until walking
Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.
line low morning showing
PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.
lines resistance grassroots
The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing. Derrick Jensen
lines blurry fiction
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. Damon Lindelof
line observing red stance
Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.
line man missed second step whoever
We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play. Reggie McNeal
lines consciousness brooks
There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere. Dan Harmon
lines walks turns
Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate. Ani Difranco
lines terrible honestly
I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines. Angela Sarafyan
man might overnight settle success takes wise
A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.
man nowhere quieter retreat untroubled
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
man perot poor rich serious
Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business. Tommy Lapid
manuscript spring vanish
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! Edward Fitzgerald
managing people
Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again. Jill Soloway
man
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
man
I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. Ted Turner
man nine observed ten
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw
man
Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere. Sharon Stone
occurred written
I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her. Amy Bloom
written
You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat. Sevyn Streeter
written
Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited. Bram Cohen
written
What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way. Felipe Alou
written
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. Allen Tate
written
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. Seamus Heaney
written
It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script. Mark Johnson
written-word written
The written word is everything. John Drinkwater
written
Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. John Lydon
written
I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally. Lyle Lovett