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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 follow sentences stick words
So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length. Robert Sheckley
american-author devoted family knowledge members odd women
So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends. Elizabeth Moon
trying speak live-by
I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on. Brandon Marshall
trying keep-trying bastille
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you. Brandon Sanderson
trying why-not mindset
I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally? Brad Paisley
trying needs venture-capitalists
While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do. Brad Feld
trying borders hopeless
It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Jane Jacobs
trying attention want
Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on. Jane Hirshfield
trying worried projects
I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before. Cameron Diaz
trying knows can-do
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. C. S. Lewis
trying students form
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. Alan Dundes