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I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.
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Chelsea Yarbro
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I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
Author:
Lanford Wilson
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Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Queen Victoria
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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
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Harry Truman
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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
Author:
John Thorn
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
Author:
Pat Summerall
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
Author:
Madeleine Stowe
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
Author:
W. Stone
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We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.
Author:
Howard Stern
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In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.
Author:
John Speke
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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.
Author:
Moo-hyum Roh
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By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
Author:
David Rockefeller
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Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Author:
Jane Roberts
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By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.
Author:
Charles Richter
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The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events.
Author:
Henry Reed
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
Author:
Dan Rather
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I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.
Author:
Collin Peterson
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The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
Author:
John Motley
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Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.
Author:
Shannon Miller
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The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
Author:
Will McDonough
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The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
Author:
Catherine McCormack
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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
Author:
Walter Lord
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To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Author:
Teresa Lauretis
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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
Author:
Christian Lange
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I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.
Author:
Leo Kottke
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Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.
Author:
Kelly Jones
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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
Author:
James Jones
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The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
Author:
Phillip Johnson
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Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.
Author:
Jerry Jenkins
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Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
Author:
Bruce Jackson
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
Author:
William Inge
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Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
Author:
Edward Hoagland
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
Author:
Georg Hegel
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
Author:
Ernie Harwell
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Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
Author:
Elizabeth George
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
Author:
John Galsworthy
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Author:
Anatole France
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I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
Author:
Ken Follett
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It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
Author:
Dario Fo
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But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
Author:
John Flynn
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Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
Author:
Elliott Erwitt
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The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.
Author:
Enya
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
Author:
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
Author:
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Author:
John Dryden
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
Author:
Arthur Doyle
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Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
Author:
Richard Cobden
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All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
Author:
Cleopatra
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I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?
Author:
John Burns
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I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.
Author:
Wilford Brimley
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Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.
Author:
Walther Bothe
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I have always been honest about my recollection of events.
Author:
David Blunkett
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If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
Author:
H. Blavatsky
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
Author:
Henri Bergson
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
Author:
John Berger
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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
Author:
Paul Berg
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Author:
Russell Baker
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
Author:
Oksana Baiul
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
Author:
Peter Ackroyd
