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If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
I like him as a guy, but I'm going to knock him out - Roy Jones is just a prop in a fairytale ending to a great career for me.
The force that has come closest across American history to actually ending America was white supremacy. That was the Civil War.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.
Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
I dreamed of ending my career with the Inter shirt, Inter is my house and I'll try to give my contribution off the pitch as well.
There's always a party ending every day but also a new one being made. They are just chapters in our lives, ending and beginning.
I care about dental care, and ending mass private and public surveillance, and funding schools so they can have small class sizes.
There's so many oldies stations with 'Never Ending Story' and 'Too Shy' on their playlists, thank God. People still love the songs.
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.
Everybody wants to have an empirical analysis of a relationship ending, but sometimes there's not that much clarity, and that's OK.
For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.
I feel very proud in what we've created in the 'Spiderwick' stories. And, frankly, I am glad we are ending the series on a high-note.
The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
I believe we should appoint a cabinet-level position that will be solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it in America.
In a professional service environment, you often work on one engagement or deal after another, with one ending before the next begins.
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.
Even as I experience the low of ending my military career, I have also experienced the loving support of tens of thousands of Americans.
If you're fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film is happy.
Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
Testify' went from a clean Motown song to straight psychedelic. Loud and feedback and people was loving it, because Motown was ending now.
I am not satisfied with the ending of 'Mount Eerie' the album, so maybe by calling myself that, I am attempting to elaborate on the ending.
We are usually very busy towards the end of the year, so I know that whenever we get super busy, it must be a sign that the year is ending.
Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.
If the world was ending, I think I would grab some Cinnamon Toast Crunch, a bunch of water, and I'd probably just... I'd probably go crazy.
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
My favorite movie is 'Dogfight' with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. The ending is kind of bittersweet but so real and moving and complicated.
Working at Palace was one of the happiest episodes of my football career, even though the ending was one of the most upsetting and traumatic.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.
Well, the Cris Cyborg-UFC relationship has mercifully come to an end. The ending was ugly and unfortunate, but I can't say I'm too torn up about it.
I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.