Sentences with phrase «wrote a friend of»

Actually, an old screen writing friend of mine has told me that Christopher Walken will work relatively cheap and do almost anything.

Jeffrey Kuhn, an attorney with the firm Lozano Smith, who wrote a friend of the court brief supporting Alameda Unified on behalf of the California School Boards Association, shared Evans» concern.

Literally, as I write this a friend of mine just IMed me the details of his book deal he just got with a mainstream publisher.

«I tend to think of him as «Uncle Steve»,» wrote a friend of mine who worked at Pixar.

To join, simply write Friends of the Pen in the notes section of the online giving form, or in the memo section of your check.

Not exact matches

The problem is that we don't often actually see those friends face to face, as the Boston Globe's Billy Baker discovered when his editor asked him to write about the health effects of loneliness recently.

Recently, a friend, writing coach Carolyn Roark visited one of her favorite Kimpton Hotels.

«Paradoxically, big get - togethers can be easier to prioritize than smaller ones,» writes Vanderkam, offering the example of a busy professor who plans an annual getaway for her old college friends and their families.

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

«Btw, just to clear up some of the press storm this weekend, although Amber and I did break up, we are still friends, remain close and love one another,» he wrote.

The federal medical privacy law named the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 is shorthanded as HIPAA, not HIPPA (which might be Peppa Pig's hippopotamus friend), as I mistakenly wrote yesterday.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

Adam Grant, the Wharton professor who is Sandberg's friend and writing partner, has been by her side, offering the comfort of research into resilience and tools for emerging from grief.

On the iDoneThis blog personal productivity coach Natalie M. Houston offers an alternative type of social break: «Write a note to an old friend you haven't been in touch with recently.»

For amusement, he suggested that each of his friends attempt to write a ghost story.

Another friend pointed out that his mom had been moved to a broom - closet - sized office upon being promoted; a third said she had been written out of the history of a successful company's founding.

The best measure I had of my writing quality before starting was my friends» review of a draft of a book.

He quickly ran through the hospital's samples and began writing prescriptions for his friends and family members — all of which he'd get filled himself at the area's various pharmacies.

«It is difficult to ask people to move away from family and friends to get a job, but it has been a reality of life for generations,» wrote one CEO.

A friend of mine one night wrote me and six of her closest friends an email saying she was completely broke.

«Myself and many of my friends regularly go to the U.S. and other countries for better care,» wrote another.

Milano wrote that a friend suggested writing «me too» on social media «to give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem» of sexual harassment and assault.

«I figured I could build a prototype of the idea in HTML5 and get it to some friends,» Systrom wrote on Quora.

These emails, bad websites, or links, could be sent from fake accounts that are able to mimic the writing style of people's friends so they look real.

«Thousands of friends and colleagues the world over have lost jobs because of the way the industry has been managed,» writes investigative journalist and former Los Angeles Times editor - in - chief O'Shea in his introduction.

«The last lawyer working on it does now know what the first one worked out», the author, and friend of Ingvar Kamprad, Bertil Torekull wrote in his book «Historien om IKEA», first published in 1998.

«Clothes should not be the focus of attention, which is to say, they should not be what colleagues or friends remember after a meeting,» she writes.

On day nine, he had thousands of views and friends of friends were sharing it with him, not knowing he'd wrote it.

So he writes Marko a $ 100,000 check and promises to speak to a few of his Instagram and Facebook friends about the deal.

«Fantastic advances in technology are not always a sign of progress,» writes technology blogger and friend Neil Hughes.

The Women's March is an example of this, where a grandmother with an internet connection wrote a post that led her friends to start a Facebook event that eventually turned into millions of people marching in cities around the world.

An entrepreneur explains how she assembled a group of friends to meet every two weeks and help her write her volume.

As they age, he writes, men miss «gangship» (their groups of friends), so they need to suck it up and invest in rebuilding their oldest and best friendships.

Written by Bays & Thomas and Spivey, the spinoff is in the tone of HIMYM, this time told from a dad's point of view, and features a new group of New York friends who hang out at MacLaren's Pub.

«To our friends at Alphabet: we are partners, you are an important investor in Uber, and we share a deep belief in the power of technology to change people's lives for the better,» wrote Khosrowshahi.

I did... I wanted to be a director and in 1970 or 1969 I had the script, Universal had the script, I bought a script from a young lady that wrote it, a friend of mine and she had written a treatment, a 60 page treatment called Play Misty for Me and I went off to Europe and made a picture.

Then, if you end up finding a teen - friendly bank, be sure to write a carefully worded letter to the bank that said no, letting them know that not only did you find a different bank to do business with, but you are recommending it to all your friends, who also want checking accounts of their own (business checking or otherwise).

My friend and mentor, Marc Ecko, wrote an amazing book called Unlabeled: The Art of Selling Without Selling Out.

«TheFaceBook enables students to search for people at their school... look up friends of friends, network, and visualize their social network via photos,» Colleran wrote, stressing the opportunity for brands to target «18 - 24 verified college students.»

«In most cases, your net worth mirrors the level of your closest friends,» writes Steve Siebold for Business Insider.

Zuckerberg, who grew up in the New York suburb of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., began writing computer code when he was 10 on an Atari computer, devising games and enlisting friends to do the graphics.

It worked: Dollar Shave Club's YouTube pitch, which Dubin wrote himself and filmed with the help of director friend Lucia Aniello, racked up nearly 10 million views on YouTube.

Lilly went on to write that the majority of this friend's co-workers had experienced no downturns in their professional lives.

«Compared with the accuracy of various human judges reported in the meta - analysis, computer models need 10, 70, 150, and 300 Likes, respectively, to outperform an average work colleague, cohabitant or friend, family member, and spouse,» they wrote, which you can see in the below chart.

One interesting bit of research I came across is that a study found a 33 percent increase in the completion of goals among those who wrote their goals down, created an action plan and shared with a friend.

«Act with fortitude and honor,» Alexander Hamilton once wrote to a distraught friend in serious financial and legal trouble of the man's own making.

Professional writers might not be able to get away with this one with all editors and for all audiences (and anyway, it's their job to find ways around the trouble), but for your average email or work memo, go ahead and write «Tell your friend they can call me,» when you don't know the gender of the friend.

Wrote one reviewer: «Everyone at Bain is the type of person you'd want to be friends with and go hang out with on a Saturday night.»

It turned out the person wasn't, but she was a friend of Harding's and because the woman was familiar with Rogers» writing credits she connected him with Harding.