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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 habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing way better-person
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. Brenda Ueland
writing exercise perspective
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled. Jane Hirshfield
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing play two
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Jascha Heifetz
writing animal rights
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good. Gary L. Francione
important bombs bikinis
The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb. Diana Vreeland
important firsts steps
The most important step of all is the first step. Start something. Blake Mycoskie
important done found
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. Donald Hall
important way
Getting out of the way is really important. Craig Newmark
important pockets enough
When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback! Daniel Pennac
important strange superficial
I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial. Dylan Moran
important want aggression
Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important. Allan Ray
important age reason
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. Allan Bloom
important way recognition
Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.
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As far as me getting signed at my age, the chances are less than zero. But if you've got any kind of art inside of you, you have a responsibility to share it with other people. The worst thing that can happen with any artist is not to believe in what you do. Larry Potts
age drop huge kids percent sports
As many as 70 percent of kids drop out of sports by the age of 13, and that's a huge issue. John Grogan
age draught hath
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth... John Keats
age bit catching eyes fire stomach
Age has been catching up on me a little bit -- the body, the mind, the fire in the stomach and the eyes a little bit have started to deteriorate. Nasser Hussain
age age-and-aging guy rather super win
Age doesn't matter. Would you rather have a 60-year-old guy and not get it done or a 30-year-old guy and win Super Bowls?
age cared government longer matter member parliament people problems simply striving votes younger
During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment. Charles Kennedy
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deliver tones from the golden age of rock n' roll with playability features incorporating modern guitar innovations. Ray Thompson
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Death is inevitable, and, after about the age of 75 or so, you begin to care about people in a certain way. We have all loved Mrs. King in that very special way these last few years. It's just a very tearful right now.
age death early grownups middle people racial
'Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan. Jonathan Kozol