'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.
There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down.
Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.
The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.
Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.
I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
