Elizabeth Sims Quotes
Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
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She's an old soul. You will find her to be one of the more mature 23-year-olds on the planet.
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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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STARTLING & INVENTIVE...This is not a movie that lets go of you easily.
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That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
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Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.
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Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
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Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.
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When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.
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And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima.
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Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.
