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Graham Nelson Quotes

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

Graham Nelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: 1968

Topics

Open Tell Show Rather Plot Means

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

Maury Yeston

Theatre Conversation Now Worldwide

I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

Matthew Perry

Life Me My Life Week You Know

I would love to make video games.

Spike Jonze

Love Video Games Games Make Would

This is fundamentally true of the media business, the rigmarole you go through while trying to make 25 movies while not seeing your kids.

Stacey Snider

Business Media Trying You Seeing Go

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Simone de Beauvoir

Stupid Impossible Face Overcome

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

Toni Collette

Journey People Me Inspire Play Try

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

Ruth St. Denis

Nature Stars Night Winds Capacity

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

Lisa Hanawalt

Trying Find Said Hard Things Been

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I Am Kind Human First Fiction Fit

There's only a couple of coffee cups I'll use, because I like the way they feel in my hand. I realise I've got lots of others, but I won't use them because I just don't like... the thickness of the ceramic is too much, or the glaze isn't right.

Cornelia Parker

Coffee Feel Too Much Hand Way Right

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Results Events Follow Single Up

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

Forgiveness Wise Stupid Forget Naive