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writing play important
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. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing race justice
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. Rebecca West
writing fiction half
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing loss world
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
color looks wearing wrong
Just looks like he's wearing the wrong color blue. Marcus Giles
color cuban guy italians political
Italians at the end of the day are Europeans. This Cuban guy is a person of color and a political refugee. Serena Kim
color hit hunts looks punish seen tackle tries trying wants
He is the only quarterback I have ever seen that actually looks for the other color helmet, and then tries to hit it. He hunts for tacklers, and wants to punish them for trying to tackle him.
color judging money people respecting skin stuff
Here we are in 2005, and a lot of the stuff is still going on today. People are still judging each other on how much money they have or their race, ... It's not about the color of skin but about people respecting one another for just being people.
color government likely pace reforms structural ultimately whatever
Whatever the color of Germany's new government will ultimately be, the pace of structural reforms is likely to be slow.
color architecture planes
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. Antoni Gaudi
color huge life lots love scared short stage time wear
For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah! Kelsea Ballerini
colors mind
I actually like the red. I don't mind the colors at all. Marty Turco
colors green primary reason school
I didn't like (the helmets), ... My primary reason being the school colors are green and gold.
played position
I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.
player team
I think it can be a distraction to the player being recruited and the team, if it's something the team is not used to, ... Around Loomis, little old Loomis, it's a little crazy. Ben Chandler
played
He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game. Stephen Jackson
played proud
He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.
player
He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot.
playing win
Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.
playing related sports
I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport. Thomas Muster
played
I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way. Shaquille O'Neal
plays roles women
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. Katori Hall