A Quote by Samuel Eliot Morison
A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
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It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
My job is to benefit the listeners first and foremost, entertain the listeners first and foremost, and to get ratings. You can't get ratings without listeners. So I wanna do things that the listeners enjoy, even though you may hate me for it or you may love me for that.
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.
People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.
Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.
As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people wring their hands about 'revisionist' historians; on some level, the correction and amplification of various parts of the past is not 'revisionism' as it is simply the process of any historical writing.
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first.
I wish I could remember the first day,
First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
If bright or dim the season it might be;
Summer or winter for aught I can say.
So, unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was i to see and to forsee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.
Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.
First and foremost, I think it's just such an incredible gift as an actor when you're presented with a notion of essentially playing two characters in one - which is kind of how I approached Timmy in this version of The Craft.'
First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
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