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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.
An embedded growth obligation is how fast a structure has to grow in order to maintain its honest positions.
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every sentence you write.
My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.
I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.
Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
I think once you get into the routine of race weekends, and there's more of a structure, it gets a bit easier.
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.
We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.
The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. You're going to be okay.
The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.
I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.
The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.
Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.
A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
We Liberal Democrats don't believe we should use the tax structure to champion just one type of family.
Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.
Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.
Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single sentence.
The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be."
PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
I think a season of 'Atlanta' bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
The question of how to structure our nation's financial system arose in the early years of the republic.
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.
I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
Aaron Persky who is the judge who really I think it's fair to say there is a mob seeking to recall him because of what's perceived as a too-lenient sentence in a sexual assault case.
The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.
The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.
There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.
With 'Pretty Deadly,' I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a three-act structure in it. I don't know - someone probably can.
Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.
I not only couldn't read but often couldn't hear or understand what was being said to me - by the time I'd processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or third.
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.
