Sentences with phrase «writers we all know people»

As writers we all know people who are always working on their books.

Basically, a personal reference letter is written to provide a recommendation simply because the writer knows the person he is recommending.

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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.

On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new in a writer's room, and you don't know what to do or say: One, be the person who holds the marker and stands at the board.

«It might seem like I built my business overnight, but what people don't know is that on the marketing side, It took me years of building a network of food writers, chefs, magazine editors, and other people in the industry,» echoes Luuvu Hoang, founder of Txiki Plaka restaurant.

Online, my social - media universe was filled with journalists and Jewish communal professionals, rabbis and professors and nonprofit workers, all of whom knew that a Tablet writer had said something offensive about the Harvey Weinstein case — but outside my front door, I encountered people who didn't inhabit my social - media universe.

If you know anything about the history of the bible you know it was created by many writers, compiled and edited by Roman emperors, added to, translated, interpreted and actually pretty much ignored — except for a few sentences that sound old fashioned that people use to justify their beliefs and actions.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

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.»

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

I'd like to point out that the writer is not unique, and as member of AA for over 20 years, I have known people to get sober in AA from every religion, denomination as well as other atheists, agnostics or non-believers.

Maybe we've evolved intellectually and no longer believe that God doesn't to people — maybe he never did and the writers of this tome called the bible were trying to gat a Pulitzer.

The writers of the bible started the trend thousands of years ago but did not expect their musings to be taken as the Truth, who knew that people would buy this nonsense.

One of these dubious deterministic friends of religion is a former student of mine named Huston Smith, a pleasant, likeable person, who enjoys his complex view, in which he finds places for a number of recent writers, though he knows how little some of us agree with it.

One more reason we need to know about religion is so that CNN can create controversy from it and keep people watching commercials and clicking on ads (which pay for the writers who create the controversy, thus keeping the unemployment rate down).

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

Fanny Crosby one of the most prolific hymn writers was blind, yet in my opinion she knew more about sight than many people.

• The eighteenth - century French writer and dramatist Nicolas Chamfort wrote: «Nearly all people live in slavery for the reason the Spartans gave us as the cause of the slavery of the Persians: they are not able to utter the syllable «no.»

It's sad when the author of this story makes it sound like she knows what she is talking about and the unknowing person believes that the writer is correct.

People have always struggled knowing which verses / doctrines apply today, how they are meant to be applied, or what the ancient writer actually meant when they penned the verse itself.

The Gospels are concerned, formally, with Jesus as remembered, but one who reads with even half an eye can not escape the fact that for the Gospel writers Jesus is not merely a person remembered; he is not even, primarily, a remembered person interpreted; he is a person still known who is both remembered and interpreted.

Knowing the original languages, keeping the passage in its context, knowing something about the writer and what that person was attempting to communicate to their original audience and why, and who the orignal audinece was (and their cultural context and time) and how they might / probably would have understood the message would be a good startingKnowing the original languages, keeping the passage in its context, knowing something about the writer and what that person was attempting to communicate to their original audience and why, and who the orignal audinece was (and their cultural context and time) and how they might / probably would have understood the message would be a good startingknowing something about the writer and what that person was attempting to communicate to their original audience and why, and who the orignal audinece was (and their cultural context and time) and how they might / probably would have understood the message would be a good starting point.

The writer was no longer a speaker and therefore no longer needed to concentrate on stories about people; instead, writers were freed to deal more directly with ideas.

It is ironic how an all - knowing god wouldn't tell (oops, «inspire») his book - writers to mention that 2000 years later, when the leaders of the church created as a follow - on to his «chosen people» shouldn't condone child molestation within their ranks.

As a writer, I'm often sharing thoughts that I know would annoy people in my small, conservative church.

, writer Charlie Blakeman nearly laughs when Sophie, his ex-girlfriend and a Catholic convert, says she plans to save the soul of her dying father - in - law, an atheist: «I don't think I knew a single person who would have spoken in that way about saving someone's soul,» Charlie observes.

Gooch's portrait of this major American writer, with its entertaining wealth of «Flannery» anecdotes from people who knew her in various capacities» family, neighbors, literary associates, spiritual advisors, admirers» depicts the kind of character for whom the phrase «an interesting person in her own right» was coined.

I've known writers who were funny who stopped being funny, who became serious persons and could no longer make jokes.

For example, when people open up their homes to me, I try to give back a gift — as a writer, I'm often given freebies and I pass on books, tickets to an event, a bottle of wine that I know the hosts will like.

Your address is important because people want to know that the writer is someone local.

The problem is that the writers aren't the only people who know something about baseball.

As much as writers like myself like to pretend, we know not many people are picking up a sports magazine if its just going to be pages of text.

people are going on about the number of goals he scored or lack of them more precisely but morata for the majority of the season was used as an impact player / sub, also like the writer mentioned as both RM&JUVE he was overshadowed by great players / stars so if if he were to sign for us knowing that he is the 1st choice striker he could flourish and surprise us all!!

If some of the placard wavers believe that the article writer here is speaking too soon, spare a moment for some of us, who listen to angry people speak before a ball has even been kicked, summer was no different, after liv and lei was no different, so just spare a thought.

I feel competent people want wenger in or atleast let him finish his contract this writer wrote facts were winning silverware and no matter what we win or how far we make it the wenger outs just need that negative element to feed they make it obvious when they have no facts to stand on oyher than we lost a final that we beat last years champions to get into and lost to this years champion who have been the best team in england not much to stand on

The biased nature of writers, you know, we saw it with others in the past, with Ted Williams and others, where maybe some people left them off because of personality reasons.

I mean the way u guys get on people mainly writers here is so disrespectful.Someone will sacrifice his time, effort among other things to bring out an article for u to read and keep yourselves busy but all you do is say direspectful things about his article.I know there are categories of them that are meaningless and clueless but definately not this same article.

Actually the writer is just people like most of the fans, who become more real that know what arsenal is now.

I have literally never seen (or written) a story about an unmedicated birth shared on a social media feed without somebody chiming in to tell the writer that what they're saying is somehow wrong, no matter how many disclaimers they include about how much they understand and respect other people's right (or need) to birth differently.

Dr. Robyn Silverman is a child development specialist, sought - after speaker and award - winning writer known for her no - nonsense yet positive approach to helping young people and their families thrive.

But the competitive cyclist and freelance writer knows the approaching winter will really test people's commitment.

Another person I need to thank is someone I've never met and who never knew me: Dana Raphael, the subject of this week's featured article from The New York Times, written by urban affairs writer Sam Roberts.

The following quotes about moms were written as far back as the 18th century and come to us from many well - known authors, song writers, poets and many other influential people.

«When we consider the book of Hebrews which said that we have no right to eat on the altar on which we serve, the writer had challenged his listeners to shun away from sexual immorality, love of money, strange teaching (teaching which satisfies people appetites), and ceremonial food (Hebrews 13:4 - 10).

Some well - known people have received honours this year including: • actor Kenneth Branagh receives a knighthood, Kate Winslet a CBE and Jenny Agutter an OBE • architect Zaha Hadid receives a DBE, opera director David McVicar is knighted, and comic writer Grant Morrison gets an MBE • there were MBEs for world number one ranked golfer Luke Donald, Welsh rugby union player Shane Williams and former England goalkeeper David James • satirist Armando Iannucci gets an OBE, and there are CBEs for journalist Peter Riddell and cookery writer Mary Berry • there were OBEs for singer - songwriter Gary Barlow who organised the Queen's Jubilee Concert, and Sarah Burton, designer of Kate Middleton's wedding dress

When next you want to know what IPOB is saying and the events concerning Biafra, go to Family Writers Press (FWP) and stop forming your opinion out of people like you, who can sell even their boss, for political relevance.

But the sheer volume of unsolicited emails and texts I've had, from famous writers to people I don't know, telling me how moved and inspired they are suggests that I'm meeting a deep social need, and that there will be more work like this in theatre and beyond.

What some writers of rejoinders do not know is that there is a tendency in our part of the world for people to believe the first account and to consider the second as a cover - up which it really is for most of the time.

«No matter how we presented Move NY... the headline writers, the headline always come out, «Tolls on the East River bridges» and that just rubs people the wrong way,» Schwartz recalled.