Sentences with phrase «decades before he wrote»

Loosely based on the 1973 film written and directed by Michael Crichton two decades before he wrote Jurassic Park, the series will expand upon the world of a theme park for adults where they can live out their wildest desires without consequences.

I've been lucky enough through my various jobs writing for TV, to have been a professional writer for over a decade before I wrote my first novel.

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In the decade following Katrina, I would write a book on the digitization of modern sexuality well before it was popular and co-found a platonic connection app that would kickstart an entire industry.

«Take rotten governments like the one in Egypt before the riots of 2011, supported by the United States for four decades in order to «avoid chaos,» he writes.

He spent decades sabotaging his own TV writing career before washing up on cable.

I've written before about the presidential election cycle theory, developed several decades ago by Yale Hirsch, whose son Jeffrey serves as editor of the indispensable Stock Trader's Almanac, now in its 50th edition.

In fact as I started writing more about the outlook for hard commodity prices over the next year, I adjusted my outlook downwards and proposed that iron ore prices would fall below $ 50 a ton before the end of the decade.

Three decades before the current writing by feminist therapists, she was publishing papers challenging the blatantly patriarchal presuppositions of Freud.

Even the synoptic gospels having differences in them because they were passed verbally passed on for decades before they were written down.

There are stories about a magical hero that supposedly died decades before the stories were written.

For decades before that, theologians wrote and taught that artificial contraception was a serious moral wrong threatening spiritual health and ultimately salvation.

His description of the Last Supper in I Corinthians 11 was written decades before any of the gospels.

Stories about a magical man who supposedly died decades before the stories were written, are NOT evidence of a non magical person existing.

Written by «historians» decades and in one case a century after the «fact» before they were even alive from second - hand sources when Christianity was considered a cult.

PS: I've been a fan of your writing for a decade but never connected with you before, so hello and thank you from New Zealand!

A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, Siegel practiced intellectual property, advertising and food law in New York City for almost a decade before turning to a career in freelance writing.

David TaylorCritic, novelist and Orwell biographerI've always found it diffi cult to view 1984 outside the context of the four novels Orwell wrote in the decade before the World War II - Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep The Aspidistra Flying and Coming Up For Air.

Those directions might have served equally well for locating Barbour's house at the time it was built in 1659, a few decades before another English physicist, Isaac Newton, wrote his Principia, setting down the ideas about motion and gravity that dominated physics for almost three centuries.

But writing and earning a living writing are two very different pursuits, and it would be almost a decade before he achieved the latter.

Or that I would write 15 books in a decade, more prolific in my professional work than I'd ever been before.

The latest adaptation of a Gillian Flynn thriller, written and directed by Gilles Paquet - Brenner, hits screens starring Charlize Theron as Libby Day, tormented by what happened to her family decades before.

Circle of Iron is based on an original script called «The Silent Flute», notable for originally being written by such luminaries as actors James Coburn (Payback, The Nutty Professor) and Bruce Lee (Enter the Dragon, The Chinese Connection), as well as prolific screenwriter Stirling Silliphant (The Enforcer, Shaft in Africa), almost a decade before.

More than a decade before winning a Pulitzer for «August: Osage County,» Tracy Letts wrote «Killer Joe,» a violent look at an impoverished Texan family.

Over the past decade, Andrew Jones has written, produced and / or directed a dozen films, including Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection, The Amityville Asylum and Poltergeist Activity, and two more are due out before the end of August: Conjuring the Dead (formerly known as Valley of the -LRB-...)

I've written before about the near - vertical trajectory (in a bad way) of M. Night Shyamalan's career over the past decade, from the idiocies of The Village to the did - that - really - happen awfulness of The Happening to the generic ineptitude of The Last Airbender.

Bonus Materials: If Intolerable Cruelty doesn't feel quite like a typical Coen concoction, theres a reason — it was written nearly a decade ago for another director before bouncing around Hollywood and landing back in the laps of the reluctant brothers, who initially deemed the project too commercial for their tastes.

This setting allows Bay and writer Ehren Kruger (who wrote two good movies over a decade ago — Arlington Road and The Ring — before descending into Hollywood hackdom) the films only flourish of ironic «wit» — the crotchety old gent theatre owner (great character actor Richard Riehle, wasted here) complains that all they make sequels and remakes nowadays.

He purchased a letter, which was written by John Lennon to Danny decades before.

Then in his early forties, Allen had been writing, directing, and starring in movies for over a decade and he wrote television for over a decade before that.

Several decades before Disney's renaissance effort, the first feature filming of the story arrived in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), a 1946 French movie written and directed by Jean Cocteau.

The fact that McDonagh wrote the film nearly a decade ago, before the Black Lives Matter movement, is telling.

That last update was written over a full decade before smartphones were even available.

I could not believe how rewarding it was, but I felt the outside community didn't realize how sophisticated the job was,» says Calegari, who taught for nearly a decade before cofounding 826 Valencia, a nonprofit organization that supports both teachers and students in writing skills.

As a result of this daily focus on reading nonfiction and writing in response to argumentative, informative and narrative prompts, we have witnessed greater gains in our students» writing, analytical thinking skills and confidence than we have ever experienced before in over two decades of combined teaching.

After my first observation with her, I joked that she was «teaching like a champion» two decades before Doug Lemov sat down to write his book (a fact that would surely not surprise Doug, who has long said that he merely names and describes what great teachers already do).

It's almost like a religion: General Motors held aloft the oracle of OnStar and wandered in the Tech - Before - Its - Time desert for decades, preaching the gospel of automatic crash notification — all while the company ran through OnStar leaders who grew disgruntled, left, and wrote tell - all books.

He amassed decades of technical writing before embarking on his own adventure, writing his first novel.

A couple of months before I retired, this past June, I wrote a very short booklet to answer some of the questions about the industry that I had spent the last decade in.

Rick Bass was brought up in Houston, Texas and, for about a decade after leaving college, worked as a gas and oil geologist in Jackson, Mississippi (where he started writing short stories in his lunch breaks) before moving to the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies, near the Idaho - Montana - Canada border in 1987 with his wife, Elizabeth Hughes, who has illustrated some of his more than 20 books.

Tennyson, better known as Lord Tennyson (even though he was well into his eighth decade before becoming a peer) will be familiar to most of us for a handful of his better known poems including The Charge of the Light Brigade, one of the many works written during his 42 year tenure as Poet Laureate to Queen Victoria.

We have been earning residual income for about a decade from Web sites running on a content management system James wrote before blogs existed.

As I wrote recently, more than a decade of eBook readers came and went before the Kindle.

I know an author who wrote for a publisher (with agent and editor) for nearly three decades, at about 4 % royalty, before realizing that she could earn far more by self - publishing.

Joel knows writing & publishing from the inside: he's been doing it for decades — long before the self - publishing became popularly associated with personal brand - building for professional, small - business, and entrepreneurial success.

So, 44 indie authors in the world have managed to make $ 35,000 + (before taxes and expenses) through selling e-books on Amazon — and we're assuming each author may have written about 10 books, which would take several years, if not a decade or more.

Gary has been writing ebooks for the past decade, since well before ebooks and ebook readers as we know them today.

Fantasy author Joseph Malik has been writing for decades before he turned to self - publishing.

He wrote The Interpretation of Financial Statements in 1937, after the first edition of Security Analysis and over a decade before The Intelligent Investor.

The sole known published reference to the «nanny dog» notion, before the rise of opposition to breed - specific laws in recent decades, came in a 1922 work of fiction, Pep: The Story of A Brave Dog, by Clarence Hawkes, a blind man who wrote by dictating his stories and, though able to spin a gripping yarn, routinely muddled his facts.

It was written in a day that buying a dog from a store was deemed acceptable — decades before the atrocities of puppy mills (where many such dogs came from) became known.