Focus Quotes - Page 33

• If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?

  T.C. Boyle

  Joy, Stories, Elements

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.

  Chad Harbach

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.

  Nick Antosca

  Character, Guilt, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication.

  John Hope Bryant

  Jobs, Divorce, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts to shift focus from civil to silver rights were interrupted by his untimely death. He fought ardently for Black rights, but he also recognized financial literacy as the key to an America that was truly free for all people.

  John Hope Bryant

  Kings, Keys, Rights

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Groups, Interest

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

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• I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.

  St. Lucia

  Real, Trying, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

  Crystal Renn

  Yoga, Hiking, Joy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• There's been a lot of focus on my body, but it's taught me to appreciate myself no matter where I am.

  Crystal Renn

  Appreciate, Body, Matter

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Focus and having energy is the most important goal when choosing my activities and how I treat myself.

  Crystal Renn

  Goal, Important, Energy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter. Survival is your primary focus.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Stupid, Love Is, Thinking

  "Alycia Debnam-Carey on ‘The 100′ Season 3 and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2016.

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• When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Past, Two, Survival

  "Alycia Debnam-Carey on ‘The 100′ Season 3 and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2016.

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• Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.

  Rachel Maddow

  Water, Political, Attention

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.

  James Vance

  Art, Emotional, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.

  Derek Ridgers

  Book, Taken, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can learn to focus on love in your heart rather than the symptoms of your physical condition.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Heart, Symptoms, Conditions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.

  Maya Goded

  Reality, Humanity, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

  Timothy Carey

  Children, Parent, Behavior

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

  Timothy Carey

  Children, Attitude, Parent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When a child or adolescent is troubled, the most important thing for the parent to focus on may very well be their relationship with their child or adolescent. Parents need to do whatever they can to make sure the relationship is strong.

  Timothy Carey

  Strong, Children, Parent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

  Martin O'Malley

  Needs, Isil, Destroying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.

  Leni Zumas

  People, Stories, Short Story

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the Internet comes with a lot of focus on your "personal brand."

  Marie Calloway

  Writing, Internet, Complicated

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more authentically me because I developed it without ever soliciting the advice of anyone else.

  Kevin Keck

  Blessing, Narrative Voice, Advice

  Source: therumpus.net

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