Sentences with phrase «written on bird»

«Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day.

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«Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people,» wrote Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.

«While walking your dog, to get the mail, or just around the block,» Brooks writes on his blog, «choose a focus of your attention — the songs of birds, the feel of the ground beneath your feet, the wind in your hair.»

As I write, birds whistle and warble back and forth to each other in the lush woods surrounding our tidy little rental in the lakeside town of Ajijic, on the Central Mexican Plateau.

The store, located in an old tattoo parlor, has traces of 826NYC: They teach kids writing in the back, and the space doesn't spare on the whimsy, with an artificial bird sanctuary, and a «bird adoption agency» near the checkout counter.

Although she's both written and co-directed on several acclaimed projects in the past, Gerwig had never taken over the reins of a film until Lady Bird.

Most Popular Comment: In response to «Eye on the Sparrow: What I've learned from my irrationally personal relationship with a pair of birds,» Joanna wrote:

Atheist Terry Eagleton wrote a review for the London Review of Books entitled «Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching» that began with the memorable quote: «Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.»

-- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

So I guess I wrote this post to let you know that if God's eye is on the Pips, then God's eye is on your birds too.

She writes about the impact of coffee production on birds, biodiversity, and the environment, along with related topics, at Coffee & Conservation, coffeehabitat.com

I also wrote about our visit, focusing more on the birds and habitat, at my other site Net Results, and about a dragonfly survey we did there on Urban Dragon Hunters.

As Revenge of the Birds contributor Skii writes, there are things to improve on, such as developing a better rhythm on offense and better special teams coverage after the Seahawks got some momentum with their returns in the second half.

Host to «The Bird Writes Podcast,» on Itunes covering the New Orleans Pelicans.

Edmund Knighton writes about Seven Levels of Will, Amy Bird reports on her conference workshop on Sustaining a Gardening Program, Cynthia Hoven explores the Importance of Eurythmy in Waldorf Schools, and we report on Bente Goldstein «s outstanding keynote presentation at the 2015 Conference.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

She gave me the courage to become a writer myself, and when I was teaching creative writing in grad school, I taught Bird by Bird, her book on writing.

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She also wrote the complete text of the Long Pasture Bird Guide, available in the Visitor Center, and she is working on improving and maintaining the sanctuary's bird garden, a place where visitors can see purple martins and other relatively uncommon specBird Guide, available in the Visitor Center, and she is working on improving and maintaining the sanctuary's bird garden, a place where visitors can see purple martins and other relatively uncommon specbird garden, a place where visitors can see purple martins and other relatively uncommon species.

Writing in The Times (#) recently, John Bird, founder and editor in chief of The Big Issue, expressed frustration that the current welfare debate had been reduced to whether Iain Duncan Smith could live on # 53 per week, he wrote:

The artist posed his dead birds in lifelike poses on a board strung with wires «on which the specimen could be impaled,» Olson wrote in Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America, a book that complements the exhibibirds in lifelike poses on a board strung with wires «on which the specimen could be impaled,» Olson wrote in Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America, a book that complements the exhibiBirds of America, a book that complements the exhibition.

On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh,» Carson wrote.

«Although most studies of bird plumage focus on dichromatism, evolutionary change has most often led to similar, rather than different, plumage in males and females,» the authors write.

When she is not working on her blog or writing books, Emily can be found studying at university, conversing with birds on the street, gobbling down dark chocolate and green smoothies, lifting weights, practicing yoga, and jamming to records.

Gardening, knitting, crocheting, sewing, birding, crafting, writing, continuing education... the list goes on.

Naturalist and ornithologist, Francis Morris, wrote many books on the history of British birds, each richly illustrated with hand colored bookplates.

When I went to a coffee shop later the same day, I told the barista my name, then corrected it with, «big bird» for my cup when he asked what he should write on the cup — too funny.

I'm writing to you with the sound of boats in distance on the lake, birds chirping, and coffee in hand.

On Facebook early Monday, Willemse wrote: «As I sit and mourn such a beautiful life gone too fast, all i can say is look up and watch the birds fly high and free today...

Las Vegas — On Facebook early Monday, Willemse wrote: «As I sit and mourn such a beautiful life gone too fast, all i can say is look up and watch the birds fly high and free today...

The Incredibles, written and directed by Brad Bird, served up something of a definitive superhero tale, using an average family with extraordinary gifts to comment on modern standards and mining the rich history of superhero fiction for endless laughs and excitement.

Written by Bird and Damon Lindelof, and based on a story by Lindelof, Bird and Jeff Jensen, Tomorrowland also stars Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw, Judy Greer, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan - Michael Key and Thomas Robinson.

Greta Gerwig has previously collaborated with other filmmakers, both in writing and direction, but «Lady Bird» is the first movie in which she's been completely in charge — and she is better off on her own.

The writing and directing debut of Parks and Recreation actor Paul Schneider, Pretty Bird is an ambling, relatively forced - cute rumination on hazy American ambition, wherein the cart of end result is always put before the horse of honed idea.

Do you feel that with «Lady Bird» — a movie written and directed by a woman, focused on a female - centered story about a mother and a daughter — this year in particular has had extra power?

The «Lady Bird» writer and director, who was snubbed in the directing category at the Golden Globes earlier this year, but was later nominated for a DGA Award when they were announced a few days later, was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday in the directing and writing categories.

«I love one of the first things that (screenwriter) Steven (Rogers) told me about this part when he said he wrote it for me was that I get to play this woman who lives in a trailer basically, wears a fur coat, and has a bird on her shoulder, I was like «I'm in!

Regarding Lady Bird, her first solo writing credit, Gerwig is careful to issue the story's «semiautobiographical» disclaimer, lest any of the characters or circumstances veer off the «truth,» which has a tendency to morph, depending on who's owning it that day, Mercury's retrograde status, and the air temperature atop Kilimanjaro at noon on Tuesdays.

The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.

Kormákur inexplicably attracts one of the most impressive casts of the year — actually, it does make sense: he needed a talented group to elevate a dire script, people who could lend gravitas to dialogue kindergarten kids might have written — to flesh out this bird's eye view on a disastrous weekend on the mountain.

One of our recent updates from April said that Brad Bird was just getting to writing on The Incredibles 2, so it's understandable they're at the very early development stage with four years of time to go before release.

In one of the most potent scenes, Lady Bird demands her mother write on paper just how much dollars she cost, dreaming aloud that one day she'll make more than what she costs.

Christina Hodson will be starting from scratch on the project, and she's a solid replacement, not just because she has already written the Batgirl character for Birds of Prey, but because she brings a much - needed female perspective to the film.

Everything suggests that it'll be just as on - point with its satire as the first movie considering Brad Bird is writing and directing this sequel.

The Shape of Water, Universal's Get Out and Lady Bird were joined on the Best Picture list by Sony Classics» Call Me By Your Name; Focus Features» Darkest Hour, home to Best Actor frontrunner Gary Oldman, nommed today; Warner Bros» Dunkirk, with Christopher Nolan's stunning war movie scoring eight noms; Focus» Phantom Thread, with Daniel Day - Lewis back in the Actor race; Fox's The Post, along with it the 21st nomination for Meryl Streep (though not for director Stephen Spielberg); and Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, probably the other frontrunner coming into today noms and which had seven nominations, with Martin McDonagh nominated for writing but not directing, and the film's big three — Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell — all nominated.

Greta Gerwig, «Lady Bird» (2017) • The indie actress wrote and directed this feature, her first as solo director, based on her upbringing in Pasadena, Calif..

Actress Greta Gerwig has previously collaborated with other filmmakers, both in writing and direction, but «Lady Bird» is the first movie in which she's been completely in charge — and she is better off on her own.

Hodson wrote the 2017 Warner Bros. thriller «Unforgettable,» which starred Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl, and she has already written the Batgirl character, having helped to develop a feature project based on the all - female crime - fighting group Birds of Prey.

«Lady Bird,» as well as her writing collaborations with Baumbach, «Frances Ha» and «Mistress America,» developed in part by stewing on various ideas and allowing them to solidify into stories, she said.

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