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Trying to start writing thesis proposal but I just can't get started... |
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| Megan Abbott |
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing. |
| Eric Cantor |
Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt. |
| Samuel Johnson |
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. |
| The Notorious B.I.G. |
Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man. |
| Julianna Baggott |
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself. |
| David Eddings |
Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on. |
| Maria Cantwell |
But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates. |
| Greg Abbott |
America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor's appointment. |
| Danny Danon |
Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. |
| Manfred Eigen |
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. |
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Sometimes I'm so busy hating school that I forget about how cool everything I'm learning is. I just had a moment where I thought to myself, "UGH I should start reading this damn paper to prepare for my proposal. DAMNIT." And then I started reading it and I realized, "Oh, man, this is awesome! What a great idea!"
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I had a dream that there was some kind of animal I was supposed to help or save? It was a lot clearer to me before I sat down to start writing it...
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I started watching TV and realized that some of my favorite shows are like... always on TV. Also, commercials are completely intolerable. They feel like brainwashing. Like they're stealing part of my brain and writing their advertisements on top of it.
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1: To get started, write one true sentence.
Hemingway had a simple trick for overcoming writer's block. In a memorable passage in A Moveable Feast, he writes:
Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you kno...
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I had three dreams in a row. The two were nightmares. The first was that someone was wearing a bear costume but then I think that they started to act like a real bear and eating people which was really scary and then the second one was that one of the robots from the new zelda game was living in my backyard and wanted to break into my house. The third one was that I was in highschool again and I volunteered for some writing exercise I had to do on the board and it was kind of weird but had something to do with oranges.
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I had a dream that I had to defend my thesis again and it was outside in the snow and no one came.
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^^^ this is a dream about finishing my thesis and people not understanding how much work I have to do
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"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day." - Hemingway's Nobel Prize Speech
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If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
—Ernest Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon
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I had a dream that people were ripping teeth out of my mouth and then they started falling out by themselves and my mouth was bleeding everywhere and I almost swallowed a tooth by accident and I started choking on it. All very unpleasant.
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