Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
Fruits are snacks, which are rich in vitamins, and can be eaten the whole day.
You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.
I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.
The religion and it's many barbed indoctrinating tendrils just start to become what makes you who you are, so you have to kind of destroy yourself to be able to rebuild yourself and make yourself whole again.
The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.
I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you. . . a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.
Racing is the only time I feel whole.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.
A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.
If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.