Debra Monroe Quotes
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.Debra Monroe
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I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.
Adam McKay -
I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. Harvey -
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman -
I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
Victoria Justice -
In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
Eckhart Tolle -
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
Dani Shapiro
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
Hailey Bieber -
Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
Manny Pacquiao -
I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
Viggo Mortensen -
My personal style is ever changing.
India de Beaufort -
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Pat Brown -
Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
Vera Farmiga
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
Jack McCollough -
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
Larry Ellison -
I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.
Oskar Schindler -
My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.
Tariq Anwar -
It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
Zooey Deschanel -
I don't judge people on their personal lives.
Bebe Rexha
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.
Flannery O'Connor -
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.
Debra Monroe