Sentences with phrase «something writer living»

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Most people probably know Lena Dunham as the creator, writer, and star of Girls, the HBO comedy series that is loosely based on her life as a twenty - something in New York City.

Experts on the origins of Europe traditionally refer back to Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 B.C.), the first known writer to designate Europe as a geographic concept: «The Persians consider something of their property to be Asia and the barbarian peoples who live there, while they maintain that Europe and the Greek world are a separate country.»

This writer is a university chaplain, and so most of my daily life is taken up with ministering to twenty - somethings.

The writers insisted that God's Word is about something and what it is most immediately about is a historical event: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the inbreaking of the kingdom he inaugurates.

This is just one of many such stories of songs that were penned when the writer was going through an incredible trial in their life, and yet they something had a peace through it all!

Of course if that writer intended something else, as he may well have done, namely that the «times», in the sense of the particular segment of history in which he lived, were indeed «evil» and were marked by wickedness, with a collapse of standards and the denial of all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statement.

Writers like Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard and Lewis Thomas all speak of the most ordinary things, yet find in a weasel's stare, a swollen river, a snail's strange life something far more than...

The Incarnation enabled the New Testament writers, and especially John, to see this separately and eternally existent Word - Wisdom as a person - the person of God: «Something which has existed since the beginning, that we have heard, and we have seen with our own eyes; that we have watched and touched with our hands: the Word, who is life - this is our subject» (1 Jn 1, 1).

We are reading about something which had never happened before in the life of this world, and we can hardly expect the writers of the first century A.D. fully to grasp the significance of what they are describing.

«At precisely those points of urgent need... Paul is most conscious that he is writing as one authorized, by the apostolic call he had received from Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Spirit, to bring life and order to the church by his words... This is not to say that the writers of the New Testament specifically envisaged a time when their books would be collected together and form something like what we now know as the cannon.

This continual spiritual backdrop to our «ordinary» lives is something the Canadian writer and novelist Michael D O'Brien grasps well.

Embracing the ambivalence and impermanence of life and relationships might, something psychology lecturer and writer Meg Jo Barker suggests.

Fourth, the implication that computers will «want» to do something (like convert the world into paperclips) means AI has emotions, but as science writer Michael Chorost notes, «the minute an A.I. wants anything, it will live in a universe with rewards and punishments — including punishments from us for behaving badly.»

Jessica Lynn Gomes is a twenty ‐ something creative writer and health enthusiast living in Laguna Beach, California.

I wanted it to be something personal, unique and to resemble who I am (a Polish writer living in America).

I'm a 40 something freelance writer and mom of two boys, married to my high school sweetheart and living in the Pacific Northwest.

I couldn't agree more... Trust me, it's not that I'm purposely turning my personal (life) style and fashion blog into something shallow, but I think I've hit some sort of «writers - block».

From writer's festivals and film festivals to satisfy arty singles, to beer festivals and food celebrations to please gourmet lovers, to the legendary Auckland Arts Festival that celebrates life in the City of Sails, there is something here to suit everyone.

As writers, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg run their characters through a bunch of funny situations, work in flashbacks and dream sequences to great effect (Harold & Kumar is, in the best possible way, something of a live action «Family Guy»), but their directing skills are nil.

After the whimsy of last week's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the real - life dramas of 2017's Another Mother's Son, the Channel Islands become home to something altogether more eerie in this Jersey - set debut feature from writer - director Michael Pearce.

Sure, a romantic comedy about people searching for something real is old hat, but writer / director Bujalski (Computer Chess) gives us interesting characters in unique situations to breathe some fun new life into the genre.

One of many reasons that «Vengeance» works, and something that other action movie producers could look at, is that McTiernan and writer Jonathan Hensleigh never betray how seriously they take their larger - than - life narrative.

Headlined by another confident and compelling turn from British rising star John Boyega («Attack the Block»), the pic examines life in Watts, Los Angeles, through the eyes of a young aspiring writer searching for something more.

As with his previous film, Funny People, Apatow again cast his real - life wife (Leslie Mann) and daughters (Iris and Maude Apatow) in a bid for something like verisimilitude, with a pot - bellied Paul Rudd standing in as the writer - director's surrogate.

Cal is looking for something in his life, and writer / director Bart Freundlich (The Myth of the Fingerprints) is probably looking for something too.

Perhaps with a screenwriter more in tune with the nature of the Los Angeles lifestyle, the vernacular, and the prevalent attitudes among the melting pot existence that is Southern California living, the authenticity could have pushed Freedom Writers from a watchable, likeable semi-fantasy into something truly substantial and worthwhile (a la Half Nelson, perhaps), even if it comes at the expense of the very clean, linear narrative.

If getting a film every ten years or so from writer - director Tamara Jenkins means something like «Private Life,» it's worth the wait.

Inspired by writer / director John Carney's (ONCE, BEGIN AGAIN) life and love for music, SING STREET shows us a world where music has the power to take us away from the turmoil of everyday life and transform us into something greater.

After all, Saturday Night Live writer Robert Smigel is making his feature directing debut with this movie, so maybe he has something to prove.

This is his highest - placed film, which may have something to do with just how real and recognisable Winterbottom and writer Laurence Coriat's vision of London is as he tells of one Bonfire Night weekend in the lives of three variously troubled sisters, played by Gina McKee, Shirley Henderson and Molly Parker.

YA author Georgia Clark's first adult novel, The Regulars, drops readers effortlessly into the lives of three 20 - something best friends trying to make it in New York City: Evie, an aspiring writer and diehard feminist who hates her job at a trashy magazine; Willow, an ethereal and troubled aspiring artist; and Krista, the confident trainwreck of a best friend so many of us have had.

She's a pretty thirty - something freelance writer living in a gorgeous Victorian triplex in Old Town.

Moses: Could you tell me something interesting that you've never shared with the public about your life as a writer?

The reason people are making a living without being household names while the names are not is because traditional publishing has to a large extent come to treat writers as fodder for the mill, something to be profited from, rather than partners.

That may be true, and yet by combining the writer's final moments of life with what they left on the page, Roiphe ultimately offers us something beyond the work: a glimpse of death that is startling and new, intimate and uncomfortable, and deeply, deeply human.

My very practical and honest father, who worked in special education administration for much of his career, told me that writers have a hard time earning a living and that I should think about doing something else as a career to provide financial security.

This is actually something really unique and exciting in this world that we're living in, the writers» world.

Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a forty - something woman, wife, mother, and writer.

Although I had wanted to be a writer much earlier in life, when I finally received a powerful inspiration, it wasn't a call to write a book or even anything that could be described in conventional terms, as, say, an essay or something.

Peter Matthiessen was the writer whose work first gave me hope that it was still possible to write about something besides the tediousness of contemporary sub / urban life.

And on the days when a successful career as a writer seems more like something out of a futuristic novel than my real life, I think about my why.

So you've got something, you know, services like Wattpad where very young writers, I mean, as young as 13, 14, you know, that stage in life where a lot of people are writers, and then they stop later on, but they are publicly putting out their writing.

But it does creates something that many writers dream about: not just having a book with their name on it, but a true connection to readers whose lives you have shaped.

It's very hard to treat as a business a career you have no control over, and which does not, and unless you're very lucky can not (yes, talent comes into it too, and the balance of talent and luck vary according tot he writer, but you still need to be in the right place at the right time, something you in the end have no control over) pay a living wage.

As a prolific blogger and author of several books, Tammy Strobel has successfully pared down the complexity of her life to the point she not only survives, but also thrives as a full - time writer — something that is definitely not easy to do as the publishing industry is...

A few extra tips: 1) consistancy, no surprises or fancey eye - work 2) Of course have something to say without alienating to many potential readers 3) Bringing to light the woes of the world without causing reader cringe 4) Humor is a must when done for good reason, 5) the list goes on — you won't attract the paying people no matter how helpful you are unless writers / publishers earn a living at writing.

Today, many writers are making a living with something called «the midpoint».

In closing, as an aside, can you imagine a question given at the Presidential debates that went something like this: «Senator, the leading bond manager of our country, and many leading financial writers (e.g. James Grant, Barry Ritholtz) have argued that the way that the government calculates the CPI is flawed, and understates the change in the cost of living.

I lived in a fraternity in college, and to survive in that environment you had to have a thick skin — it's something that has served me well as a writer.

It spoke to a travel writer exploring India in the present who, so happened, was compelled to see something in real life from what he had seen only in paper and on screen.