P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
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A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.
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Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
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When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
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Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.
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I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
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Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
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We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.
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TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
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'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.
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I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.
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O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
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I don't just make music for one audience.
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Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.
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Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.
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Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
