My biggest advice for women writerdirectors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors. "
I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.
Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.
The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind. . . as if we were God.
Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.
Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.
Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.
The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!
English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.
If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage
Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and. . . it's like attempting for something.
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.
That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
We're not attempting to circumcise rules.
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation. . . but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
