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Basic Quotes by Laurie Alberts
- Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.
- Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it…
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- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively… — Gerry Adams
- Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the… — Martha Beck
- It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not… — Annie Besant
- Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship… — Benazir Bhutto
- When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life,… — Benazir Bhutto
- Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. — Theodor Adorno