Douglas Brunt Quotes
Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.
Douglas Brunt
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
Kate Moss
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
Gavin Newsom
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
Hailey Gates
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
Kate Mara
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
Ian Rush
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Aaron Sorkin
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We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Carlo Collodi
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
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When I was in junior high school, friends and I were in a consciousness-raising group, a term that now seems quaint like a butter churn, but it was very powerful. It was a really wonderful experience.
Meg Wolitzer
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Thing that was very different for me is that an American child's reading is filled with Americans.
Laila Lalami
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Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.
Douglas Brunt