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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.
years facts beverly-hills
When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.' Brett Ratner
years eight stories
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
years people effort
People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.
years looks moments
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning... Ayn Rand
years fifty analysis
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. Benjamin Cardozo
years law voice
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.
years sheep one-day
If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep! Benito Mussolini
years band nelson
Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is. Brad Paisley
years tabloids masters
I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all Brad Pitt
longer nations oil stability states taken united
The stability of some of the nations principally responsible for supplying oil to the United States can no longer be taken for granted. Ted Stevens
longer nice storage
Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have. Tom Coughlin
longer
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along. Wes Anderson
longer puts shortest walked
The shortest 11 can play is 505. I walked it to the back and it was 513, which puts it longer than No. 13. Charles Howell
longer songs
I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
longer releasing
There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure.
longer order takes
That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful.
long stuff wells
My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.
long facts stories
It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.