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In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
When I got my head shaved, it was all over the papers. It's weird that when you get a haircut you are in the papers, it's pretty stupid
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.
Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.
Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.
Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.
We should create a holiday that celebrates money for what it is, essentially worthless paper, upon which we agree to pretend it has value.
I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and always have blotting papers.
I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!
At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.
My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.
If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.
In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.
I had definitely missed the literary development game with Paper Lantern Lit, and writing exclusively wasn't giving me complete fulfillment.
And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.
The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.
That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.
I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.
Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.
I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.
I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper.
I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.
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.