- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
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- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
- Commandment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good words cool more than cold water.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.
- Generosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.
- Consisting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.
- Nov 07, 2020
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020