Sentences with phrase «about calling myself a writer»

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Laurie Garrett, one of the globe's most gifted writers on global public health issues, has a timely and scary essay on foreignpolicy.com about the nasty norovirus plaguing athletes in the Olympic village — a bug one expert calls the «perfect human pathogen.»

I'm a journalist and a writer, and my new book is called «Collusion,» and it's about Donald Trump and Russia.

Calling myself a writer has about the same impact on a potential client as calling myself aCalling myself a writer has about the same impact on a potential client as calling myself acalling myself a biped.

The writers called this a «surprising finding» and admitted there were reasons to be cautious about it.

I have never been called a «heretic» because I believe that the number of specific prophesies about Jesus may be greatly exaggerated by some popular writers.

It's simple: You don't get to say what marriage is or is not based upon the bible or the so - called word of god (whatever that is... think about that for a minute... unless you speak 1st century aramaic you have no idea what the original writers of the ficto - mythic texts you now presume as the word of god even means!)

All of us who know, however underwhelmingly, the call to prophetic leadership, lay or ordained, are very well aware of what this seminarian is talking about; and in this sense there is, I am afraid, something almost inescapably deceiving in the stance of the preacher / Iecturer / writer — at least this one.

Sabio: Are you saying that the biblical writers wrote what they did only out of political or social agendas without any sincere attempt to talk about what they called God?

A Woman Called: Piecing Together the Ministry Puzzle by Sara Gaston Barton — With a writer's eye and a teacher's heart, Sara Barton weaves together stories from Michigan to Uganda, Texas to ancient Israel, to bring the conversation about women and ministry to life.

But this enlightening article from a German writer about how Americans are far too timid when confronting prejudice — «at the dinner table, I've noticed, what Germans call a discussion, Americans call an argument» — reminds us that this fear of confrontation is exactly what preserves the status quo, often with disastrous consequences.

Future comments that including demeaning remarks about the writers of the posts or people who comment, or that include name - calling will be deleted, not edited as this one was.

I am a musician and a writer, plus a dabbler in drawing and other artistic «crafty» endeavors so I always interpret things from a deep emotional point of view which hasn't always worked in my favour (at least it didn't in the church I attended) and alienated me from non-artistic people who called me too sensitive and too picky and too obsessive and too emotionally involved with just about everything I did, or tried to do.

These writers believed themselves to be inspired by the Spirit and called as teachers, and their writings, argues Wright, «were not simply about the coming of God's Kingdom into all the world; they were, and were designed to be, part of the means whereby that happened... Those who read these writings discovered, from very early on, that the books themselves carried the same power, the same authority in action, that had characterized the initial preaching of the «word.»

I am constantly shaking my head at writers and media who seem not to understand the medical facts or science regarding birth control and because of that mislead readers about the truth about birth control and what it does and doesn't do and the truth around so - called religious objections as it applies to the health care law.

the fact that the term midget was used here says a lot about the writer of this blog... dwarfism happens because of different medical conditions... and many people affected with dwarfism like to be called little people... midget is considered to be pejorative.

In light of my previous post on Luther, and my opening post for this blog about being called a heretic, I thought I might comment on some recent articles and books which condemn me (and other speakers and writers) as someone who teaches a crossless gospel.

That's a lie, they are calling the writers of the bible ignorant of the real facts about sexuality.

This site is called «Just Arsenal», the clue is in the name, so why do writers spend so much time writing about other clubs?

What I try to do, sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I'm not as successful is there's a parenting writer called Barbara Coloroso, and she talks about whether something is illegal, immoral, or unsafe.

AG: The shorter version of my story is that I'd been working as a freelance food writer for about a decade but felt called to do something different.

Society isn't happy with single moms; according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study, nearly seven out of 10 said the trend toward single mothers was bad for society (although writer Tracy Mayor in Brain, Child magazine calls out the actual question asked by Pew researchers — how people felt about «more single women deciding to have children without a male partner to help raise them,» not whether they think single mothers per se are bad for society.

And one thing that..., that a writer called Kathy Detweiler who writes a lot about breastfeeding says is that, we are so used to that image of the enlarged post-surgery breast as being sexy, that we don't even think about it for a moment.

The June 18th, podcast featured a conversation with IEEE Spectrum editor in chief, Glenn Zorpette, and writer, John Horgan, about the so - called technological singularity in which artificial intelligence and computing power would allegedly lead to a new era in human history.

The writer John Horgan wrote a devastating essay about the Singularity in 2009 called «Science Cult.»

About Site - My name is Dylana Lim Suarez and I am a fashion blogger, writer, stylist, and photographer from sunny Southern California who is now calls New York City my home.

Lauren has a great blog called La Whimsy Writer; she writes about fashion, entertainment, lifestyle, and so much more so you should really check out her blog!

Allentown, PA About Blog Eagles Insider blog on Philadelphia Eagles football by Morning Call beat writer Nick Fierro.The Morning Call, the third largest newspaper in Pennsylvania and the leading media company in the Lehigh Valley, has nearly 120 years of publishing history in the Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton area of Pennsylvania.

I direct an open collaborative production company called hitRECord.org — writers, filmmakers, musicians, editors, remixers, artists... Frequency about 1 post per week.

When Christian Taylor, a writer on HBO's wildly popular Six Feet Under, agrees to let a British Television crew follow him for a series about Brits working in Hollywood, he finds that his true calling may be in the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas» Stage and not in the harsh world of Hollywood show business.

Then, anti Communist feelings begin to stir in the country, fed by the likes of gossip writer Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and actor John Wayne (David James Elliott), eventually leading to Trumbo being part of the so called «Hollywood Ten» brought before Congress to testify about their involvement in Communist activities.

As many of you have noticed and inquired about, our beloved colleague, senior writer, and Hatsune Miku aficionado Mike Fahey has not been writing for the site he's called home for the last dozen...

And Slate staff writer Christina Cauterucci shares her «Pre-Woke Watching» story, about a little - known Disney film called The Ugly Dachshund.

Its writer and star, Sharon Horgan (a grand pronounce - able name for an Irish woman), nailed the truth about calling little people Iseult and Fiachra.

Everything about this week's episode of Homeland, «Better Call Saul,» suggests that the writers couldn't restrain themselves from winking at audiences.

The tears that stung writer Meredith Woerner's eyes during Wonder Woman's early fight scenes, for example, led to a larger conversation (we might call it film cry - ticism) about how seldom we see women's martial strength on display in blockbusters.

Call it the son of The Shield; when a writer - producer from that intense police drama crafted a show about outlaw bikers, he was smart enough to cast his wife, Katey Sagal, as the brittle matriarch.

Once you get past the fact that it isn't a biopic about its writer Jon Ronson's time playing keyboards for the late musician and comedian Frank Sidebottom (an easy mistake to make, given Gleeson's character is called Jon and plays keyboards in a band fronted by a man called Frank, played by Michael Fassbender from beneath a papier - mache head almost identical to that sported by Sidebottom), Frank turns out to be a funny and moving meditation on mental illness and the corrupting power of fame, even of the minor variety.

John Wells, a longtime writer - producer in series television (ER, The West Wing), makes his feature debut with a compelling story about three executives (Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones) who get canned after long careers with a manufacturing conglomerate called Global Transportation Systems (GTX).

• Always eager for a «look, we said something about it first» story, Steve Weintraub calls an exclusive (seriously, we need to define this term already) on a story Eric Roth has been talking about here and there for a while now... his desire to pen a space film, among other scripts the writer is working on, all reported elsewhere long ago.

Writer - director J. C. Chandor's «Margin Call» is about a rapidly unfolding crisis at an investment bank on the eve of the 2008 economic collapse.

Writer - director J.C. Chandor makes movies about people in danger of drowning — morally so in the Wall Street snake pit of «Margin Call,» literally so in the sea saga «All Is Lost,» and now financially in «A Most Violent Year.»

From writer / director Sebastian Gutierrez comes a comedy about a serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women - including a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender and a pair of call girls - all with one thing in common: trouble.

Our writers pick their favourite scenes from the second half of Call Me by Your Name and write about what makes them great.

While at Sundance, I was able to sit down with Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey and writer / director J.C. Chandor for a quick interview about Margin Call.

Not even out of his twenties yet, the writer is a Cornell and AFI grad whose first script, a compelling Western called «The West Is Dead,» about a band of outlaws set against the construction of the Hoover Dam, saw him make the Black List in 2008, and he was subsequently snapped up by CAA.

We also talk about making Churchill human and not just the statue, shaping the script with writer Anthony McCarten, the brilliance of star Gary Oldman's performance, plus how Wright gets upset when some people call his films «painterly» believing instead he makes them cinematic and emotional.

Former Kotaku and current io9 writer Evan Narcisse, who's also writing a six - issue Marvel comic called Rise of the Black Panther, reunites with me and Kirk to talk about the adventures of T'Challa and crew.

As many of you have noticed and inquired about, our beloved colleague, senior writer, and Hatsune Miku aficionado Mike Fahey has not been writing for the site he's called home for the last dozen years.

He would talk about this process, which he called «Going Through Splat,» being as essential for him as it was for other writers.

Fordham's Amber Northern talks about her research on Common Core implementation in a presentation called «Spring Training: Working on the Fundamentals» at the Education Writers Association's 67th National Seminar at Vanderbilt University.