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.Elizabeth Sims
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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.
Malorie Blackman -
You change the world by being yourself.
Yoko Ono -
I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
Rachel Stevens -
What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
Dan Pink -
God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
Queen Latifah -
McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
Becky Lynch
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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.
Cameron Crowe -
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
Bessie Smith -
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
Oswald Chambers -
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.
Alain Macklovitch -
I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
Andrew Cuomo -
This acquisition highlights Goldman Sachs' strategy of expanding our electronic market-making capabilities.
Henry Paulson
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Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.
Brian Tracy -
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.
Amandla Stenberg -
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan -
A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!
J. G. Farrell -
When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.
Oksana Chusovitina -
Plot is character revealed by action.
Aristotle
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The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.
Euripides -
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.
Elizabeth Sims