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Some media outlets refer to 'protesters' and 'militia members,' not 'terrorists,' even though armed antigovernment extremists seizing federal property and expressing a desire to kill and die is a textbook description of domestic terrorism. Ibrahim Hooper

Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well. J. A. Konrath

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I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted. James Blunt

Myself Me You Conversation Will Think Tell Bad Emotionally Wrong Stunted Any Quite Sensitive Description Expressing Actually British

Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Janet Fitch

We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd. Janna Levin

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Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. Jay Parini

In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people. Jesse Spencer

You People Heroes Job Consider Job Description Tend Firefighters Term Like Look Terms Call Up Straight Themselves Who Description Save

Amazon Web Services for payments is an apt description of Stripe. John Collison

Stripe Apt Web Amazon Payments Description Services

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like. John Sherman Cooper

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?' John Tukey

Knowledge World Key Important Our Later Ease Our World Rather Direction Rating Merely Sooner Demand Sooner Or Later Most Quantitative How Answers How Much Questions Very Than Essentially Which Much Description Belief Asserting

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict. John le Carre

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A good commentator is someone who obviously people like listening to, who gets the blend between description, entertainment and accuracy of conveying the event right. If you can do that in an interesting way, you are a good commentator. Jonathan Agnew

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down. Jonathan Safran Foer

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Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description. Joni Eareckson Tada

Government Good Needs Basic Needs People Meet Fraud Citizens Disabilities Like Eradicate Fit Want Elderly Special Good Citizens Helping Special Needs Helping People Description Waste Basic

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle. Julie Burchill

Day Woman Men Three Duty Every Once Worthy Troublemaker Wrote Principle Least Times Upset Militant Description

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really. Juliet Stevenson

Me People Job Somebody Filtered Other Else Job Description Through Passed Conduit Experiences Wanted Which Really Description

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. Karl Pearson

I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country. Laura Ingraham

Country Between Like America In-Between Description Tom

I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace. Laurie Helgoe

Home Creative Society Nine Apt Kids See Ten Come Mostly Loud American Pit Childhood American Society Description Competing Number

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description. Maria Sharapova

You Please Everyone Job Everyone Please Job Description Know Description

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. Mayim Bialik

Job Job Description Part Mammal Child Being Your Your Child Description

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away. Michael Azerrad

Wisdom Music People Wonderful Face Become Universe Musical Focusing Minute Diverse Online More Reaching Well Advertising Demographics Very Sites Tastes Any Common Which Flies Many Works Description Niches Away Specific

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning. Michael Chabon

Time Grief Memory Speak Remember Father First Tossed Blanket Cheering Read First Time His Up Mourning Being Subtle Description Tearing

Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations. Michael Connelly

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