I grant that he's a talented writer, but I just don't find his books very interesting. |
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It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer that imperiled him. |
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She's an acclaimed writer, her books are bestsellers before they are published. |
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He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. |
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The writer therefore made observations to determine the conditions under which the aecia open and discharge spores most readily. |
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If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called. |
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In other words, I am intentionally borking the headline writer, for no other reason than to make my point with greater force. |
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Julius Caesar was the last classical writer to mention the tin trade, which appears to have declined during the Roman occupation. |
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It sees Strike investigating the disappearance of a writer hated by many of his old friends for insulting them in his new novel. |
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Firstly, the writer, like the language, is subject to the situation, in that he or she must say something meanable. |
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In 1703 Harley first made use of Daniel Defoe's talents as a political writer. |
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He worked in a North Finchley funeral parlour and as a fence erector and sign writer. |
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The four would meet up at Grafton's public house near Victoria, owned by Jimmy Grafton, who was also a BBC script writer. |
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Brown, a writer and painter, was born with cerebral palsy and was only able to control his left foot. |
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Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who worked on the first four Bond films, returned as script writer. |
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The writer Michael Morpurgo wrote the story concept for the mascots, and an animation was produced. |
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British golf writer Peter Dobereiner gave an unflattering assessment of Faldo's playing style. |
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Lead singer and writer Richard Ashcroft said that Blake had influenced the lyric 'Will those feet in modern times' from the song. |
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Travel writer Ryan Levitt considered the main Tsim Sha Tsui to Central route one of the most picturesque in the world. |
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As examples of engrossing in the neighborhood of Dorchester, the writer instances the manors of Came, Whitcomb, Muncton, and Bockhampton. |
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While writer John Austin and others have looked to combine parliamentary and national sovereignty, this view is not universally held. |
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By now, his career as a writer was coming to fruition, and his acting career was sidelined. |
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Richardson was a skilled letter writer and his talent traces back to his childhood. |
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Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. |
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In surveys of UK teachers, parents and students, Dahl is frequently ranked the best children's writer. |
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Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. |
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On this and all subsequent journeys, he was accompanied by Haxton, whom he regarded as indispensable to his success as a writer. |
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The American writer John O'Hara credited Maugham's tale as the inspiration for the title of his novel Appointment in Samarra. |
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Cape finally published it in 1953 on the recommendation of Fleming's older brother Peter, an established travel writer. |
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In 1981 the thriller writer John Gardner picked up the series with Licence Renewed. |
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On a trip to Paris in August 1920 with the artist Wyndham Lewis, he met the writer James Joyce. |
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He declined, not least because he felt he had long since ceased to be a writer of poetry in a meaningful sense. |
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Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history, he has been widely recognised by his peers and by critics. |
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Moore is a writer almost exclusively, though his hyper detailed scripts always play to the strengths of the artists he works with. |
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The writer sent Gaiman an encouraging and informative letter back, along with literary advice. |
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In 1805, The Lay of the Last Minstrel captured wide public imagination, and his career as a writer was established in spectacular fashion. |
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The Neil Gunn Trust was established in 1986, and in October 1987 a monument to the writer was unveiled on the Heights of Brae, Strathpeffer. |
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His father, Robert Owen, was a coal miner, while his mother belonged to the family of Thomas Edwards, poet and writer. |
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The problems are perhaps epitomised by Roald Dahl, a writer of short stories and children's literature. |
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Peter George is another example of a writer of Welsh origins who rarely wrote about Wales. |
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Conversely, Eric Linklater was born in Penarth, but is generally considered a Scottish writer. |
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If a Welsh writer chooses to write in English, this does not mean that they are unable to speak Welsh as well. |
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Robert Minhinnick, born in 1952, is a notable writer from the second half of the twentieth century. |
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Thomas came to be appreciated as a popular poet during his lifetime, though he found earning a living as a writer difficult. |
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form. |
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Wilde though, not content with being better known than ever in London, returned to Paris in October 1891, this time as a respected writer. |
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Conrad aroused interest among the Poles as a famous writer and an exotic compatriot from abroad. |
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He was thus an English writer who grew up in other linguistic and cultural environments. |
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After the publication of Chance in 1913, Conrad was the subject of more discussion and praise than any other English writer of the time. |
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Later in his life, Pound analyzed what he judged to be his own failings as a writer attributable to his adherence to ideological fallacies. |
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As a contemporary writer observed, Sullivan draws on these various influences while remaining recognisably himself. |
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It was inspired by the ideas of architect Augustus Pugin, writer John Ruskin, and designer William Morris. |
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William Morris was a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and translations of ancient and medieval texts. |
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In 2009, The Independent reported that he had been with his partner, the music writer Antony Peattie, for 20 years. |
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Education writer Richard Wright considers that Hume's position rejects a famous moral puzzle attributed to French philosopher Jean Buridan. |
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This daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomplished writer herself, as Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. |
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Another who read Wollstonecraft was George Eliot, a prolific writer of reviews, articles, novels, and translations. |
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Marx strongly disagreed with this new political position and in 1863 was forced to withdraw as a writer for the Tribune. |
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The Somali writer Nuruddin Farah has also garnered acclaim as perhaps the most celebrated writer ever to come out of the Horn of Africa. |
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Cawl is another prominent Somali writer who is perhaps best known for his Dervish era novel, Ignorance is the enemy of love. |
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The musical creator of the Argentine National Anthem, Blas Parera, earned fame as a theatre score writer during the early 19th century. |
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Jaroslav Seifert was the only Czech writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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By the time he left school, Voltaire had decided he wanted to be a writer, against the wishes of his father, who wanted him to become a lawyer. |
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This leaves for consideration of this group of small tribes, or subtribes, so far as mapped by the writer quoted, the Teule, Cazcan, and Tecuexe. |
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This writer has been solving cryptics for 40 years and can usually crack Araucaria, though it might take a couple of days. |
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A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. |
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We felt there was too much graphic detail in the first draft, and thus asked the writer to dial it down. |
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The writer was not heard from for some time, but when he published a new novel was known as a didapper. |
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The hype around e-books was electrifying in the year 2000 when Stephen King became the first celebrity writer to publish an e-novel. |
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At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances. |
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There was Charles Brown of Locus, the French fan and writer Georges Gallet, eofan Clifton Amsbury, and, of course, me and my wife Wendayne. |
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Could it be that for the writer everything happens in a forebook whose end he cannot see, whose end is in his book? |
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When the writer finished writing his book, it was stolen and now he has to rewrite it from scratch. |
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For instance, one writer who discussed tracking gut-shot deer talked about a kidney hit and compared it to the liver and stomach wound. |
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Archaeologists are unable to make definitive judgments which accord the observations of the Roman writer Tacitus. |
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Isaac Watts, a hymn writer from Southampton, wrote When I Survey the Wondrous Cross and O God, Our Help in Ages Past. |
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Elizabeth David, a cookery writer who revolutionised the nations's home cooking in the 1950s, came from Sussex. |
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The Historia Ecclesiastica has given Bede a high reputation, but his concerns were different from those of a modern writer of history. |
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In the guise of a wildlife writer, a hook-and-bullet writer for Sports Illustrated, I went south also, to Baton Rouge and beyond. |
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Ax was now a Hollywood hyphenated man. An actor hyphen director hyphen writer. |
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Warwickshire is home to the town of Stratford upon Avon, the birthplace of the writer William Shakespeare. |
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The labour camps of the old Soviet Union are well described by the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. |
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Crime writer Jim Kelly and award winning poet Wendy Cope currently live in the city. |
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The writer Syed Mujtaba Ali is noted for his cosmopolitan Bengali worldview. |
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Humayun Ahmed was a popular writer of modern Bangladeshi magical realism and science fiction. |
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The press stabilized English through a push towards standardization, led by Chancery Standard enthusiast and writer Richard Pynson. |
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The rise of totalitarian states is the subject of British writer George Orwell. |
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G V Desani, an Indian writer of fiction, had a more negative opinion of Kipling. |
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Whether this was a result of the Angles themselves, as the early medieval writer Gildas argued, or mere coincidence is unclear. |
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Gregory's entry in the Liber Pontificalis is short and of little use, but he himself was a writer whose work sheds light on the mission. |
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The Victorian era writer Mary Elizabeth Whitcombe divided pixies into tribes according to personality and deeds. |
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This is an important cultural difference of interpretation between London as a haole writer and Sheldon as a maoli writer. |
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He also learned from French art, including their chalk drawings, and refers to the artist and theoretical writer Gian Paolo Lomazzo. |
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Freud then began to see Guinness heiress and writer Lady Caroline Blackwood. |
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Ovid was a witty writer who excelled in creating lively and passionate characters. |
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Caxton was a technician rather than a writer and he often faced dilemmas concerning language standardisation in the books he printed. |
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In 1556, his remains were transferred to a more ornate tomb, making Chaucer the first writer interred in the area now known as Poets' Corner. |
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Malone thought that this play had to be an early and immature work of Shakespeare and, by implication, that an older writer would know better. |
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It is their task to produce a wedding entertainment, precisely the purpose of the writer on working in this play. |
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But there is little textual evidence to support this, as the writer left ambiguous clues concerning the idea of love among the fairies. |
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His younger sister, Mary, married Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and was a writer, translator and literary patron. |
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A decisive quarrel with Jones harmed his career as a writer of court masques, although he continued to entertain the court on an irregular basis. |
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The single writer who most supports the charge of obscenity levelled then and now at Restoration comedy is probably Wycherley. |
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In October 1737 Johnson brought his wife to London, and he found employment with Cave as a writer for The Gentleman's Magazine. |
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Unable to contact anyone else, he wrote to the writer and publisher Samuel Richardson. |
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From spring 1817, however, there is a rich record of his prolific and impressive skills as letter writer. |
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She also met the American actor John Howard Payne and the American writer Washington Irving, who intrigued her. |
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Feminist and psychoanalytic critics were largely responsible for the recovery from neglect of Shelley as a writer. |
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In her own lifetime, Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer, though reviewers often missed her writings' political edge. |
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Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. |
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Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. |
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This writer was the victim of the most crushing mauvaise honte, and could therefore describe it from experience. |
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Before another opportunity arose, he had set out on his career as a writer. |
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He eventually became the Church of England perpetual curate of the parish of Haworth, and was also a poet, writer, and polemicist. |
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An indication of her state of mind is her lack of productivity as a writer during the time she lived at Bath. |
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In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality. |
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Deciding against returning to Burma, he resigned from the Indian Imperial Police to become a writer. |
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In 1928, Orwell began his career as a professional writer in Paris at a journal owned by the French Communist Henri Barbusse. |
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Blyton considered enrolling at the Guildhall School of Music, but decided she was better suited to becoming a writer. |
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She was initially an unsuccessful writer, but The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920 featuring Hercule Poirot. |
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And then one reviewer said that it was your average boy-girl song and the writer didn't understand why people were making such a big deal out of it. |
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The writer Julia Kristeva is among influential voices at the turn of the century, contributing to cultural studies from the field of art and psychoanalytical French feminism. |
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He had his first serious romantic relationship, living with John Perry, an unsuccessful actor, later a writer, who remained a lifelong friend after their affair ended. |
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It is not altogether uncommon to hear a reader whose heart has been desolated by the poignancy of a narrative complain that the writer is unemotional. |
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Guy points out that the letters are disjointed, and that the French language and grammar employed in the sonnets are too poor for a writer with Mary's education. |
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Particularly in the tragedies, with their lengthy speeches abstracted from Sallust and Cicero, Augustan critics saw a writer whose learning had swamped his aesthetic judgment. |
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In 1902 Hugo von Hofmannsthal published a fictional letter addressed to Bacon and dated 1603, about a writer who is experiencing a crisis of language. |
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Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal? |
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Together with writer William Peter Blatty, they turned the script into a Clouseau comedy, also adding Herbert Lom as Commissioner Dreyfus and Burt Kwouk as Cato. |
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Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. |
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The prize is shared with an international writer of courage. |
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A facile and persuasive writer, he also turned out countless newspaper articles on Russian aims in Central Asia and how best these could be thwarted. |
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The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene. |
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Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. |
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But Powers, a former staff writer at The Washington Post who has written extensively on media and technology, is not simply an earnest foreteller of doom. |
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Bentham was an obsessive writer and reviser, but was constitutionally incapable, except on rare occasions, of bringing his work to completion and publication. |
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Coleridge was regarded by many as the greatest living writer on the demonic and he accepted the commission, only to abandon work on it after six weeks. |
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Wilson and writer Richard Maibaum started discussing its successor. |
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The area has also become associated with writer Beatrix Potter. |
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They maintained their intense programme of reading and writing, and entertained Percy Shelley's friends, such as Thomas Jefferson Hogg and the writer Thomas Love Peacock. |
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This was the first professional film that Paul Greengrass had not directed, instead being credited as a writer and producer, because of his work on The Bourne Supremacy. |
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His grandfather was the Trinidadian writer Alfred Hubert Mendes. |
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On 27 September 2016 a new project, Widows, was announced to be in development with a script penned by Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn and McQueen attached to direct. |
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Now, however, the editorial writer has a new weapon in hu arsenal. |
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This entry had been written by the antiquarian and writer John Aubrey, who privately made many notes about Avebury and other prehistoric monuments which remained unpublished. |
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Born in 1968, Craig is the first actor to portray James Bond to have been born after the Bond series started, and after the death of Ian Fleming, the novels' writer. |
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Alternatively, if there is no stenographer, a tapelogger or shorthand writer will be there to operate the tapes and ensure that a log of the proceedings is kept. |
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Dame Agatha Christie, a writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. |
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Cyprian's, Blair first met Cyril Connolly, who became a writer. |
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Dame Hilary Mantel is a highly successful writer of historical novels winning the Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall 2009, and Bring Up the Bodies. |
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A writer may, in only one work, take a strong position on socialized medicine, and he is immediately stacked on the shelf with the leftest writers. |
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The IOC elected the Greek writer Demetrius Vikelas as its first president. |
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His father, also named William, was briefly a naval surgeon, who later became a writer of novels and short stories, some of which were illustrated by his son. |
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Known as Branwell, he was a painter, writer and casual worker. |
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The choice of subject in that work is a mistake, it was too little consonant with the character, tastes and ideas of the gentle, retiring inexperienced writer. |
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His sister Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes also grew up to be a writer. |
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It is also the birthplace of actor, comedian and writer Simon Pegg. |
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If that's what writer Edwards had in mind however, she nails it. |
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He was a perceptive writer who used the experiences and the wide range of people he encountered in his works of fiction, generally to humorous effect. |
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The opera is based on a short story by the writer William Heinesen. |
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The native Picts, according to the medieval writer Bede, were converted in two stages, initially by native Britons under Ninian, and subsequently by Irish missionaries. |
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This source is highly influenced by the contemporary concerns of its writer, but does attempt to provide some new material besides reworking Bede. |
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He visited his old tutor Gow at Cambridge for advice on becoming a writer. |
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Konstam speculates further, suggesting that Johnson may have been the English playwright Charles Johnson, the British publisher Charles Rivington, or the writer Daniel Defoe. |
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Eddison was another influential writer, wrote during this era. |
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Later, the children's writer Beatrix Potter also wrote in the region and became a major landowner, granting much of her property to the National Trust on her death. |
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He is a dazzling obscure writer who can be enjoyed without understanding. |
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Novelists influenced by Blyton include the crime writer Denise Danks, whose fictional detective Georgina Powers is based on George from the Famous Five. |
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He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley, who edited Cornhill Magazine, and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School. |
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Disraeli impressed Murray with his energy and commitment to the project, but he failed in his key task of persuading the eminent writer John Gibson Lockhart to edit the paper. |
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The most widely popular writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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However, it also seems to have been intended for private reading as well, since Chaucer frequently refers to himself as the writer, rather than the speaker, of the work. |
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Sullivan and the writer Guy Davenport, but it was the association with Mullins and Kasper that stood out and delayed his release from St Elizabeths. |
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One item of evidence in favour of this hypothesis is found in the Spanish book Compendio Historial, written in 1571 by the Basque writer Esteban de Garibay. |
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The poet's imagination creates unity by giving form to diverse elements, and the writer is addressing the spectator's own imagination which also creates and perceives unity. |
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