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writing hopefully knows
Robert Creeley Hopefully, I write what I don't know.
writing play important
Robert Creeley Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.
writing intelligent thinking
Robert Cormier I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
writing needs phases
Robert Collier Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.
writing space people
Rob Thurman I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.
writing scripts mainstream
Rob Zombie [Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
writing order opposites
Rob Chapman I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.
writing
Rob Halford That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.
excellence body lions
Woody Allen The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.
excellence may fancy
Samuel Richardson All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
excellence film distinguished
Roger Ebert James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
excellence example faults
Samuel Johnson The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.
excellence lifetime labor
Samuel Johnson Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
excellence doe presidency
Ronald Reagan Excellence does not begin in Washington.
excellence job others replace step unique
Alan Alda Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.
excellence saving agents
Joseph A. Schumpeter The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.
excellence hogs men virtue
Benjamin Franklin The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue
faults bears
Juvenal Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
faults rivalry feels
Rob Corddry I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.
faults admitting made
Truman Capote He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.
faults blame virtue
William Wordsworth For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
faults
Valentino Garavani I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
faults want persons
Robert Louis Stevenson If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.
faults alive i-am-alive
Walter Map Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.
faults language obsession
Walter Kirn Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
faults blame lifeless
Voltaire He is lifeless that is faultless.