Word: notion
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...book. And I'm still learning about him. And I will be learning about him until I come to the last book, which I think will be number ten. And if I wrote an eleventh, I would find out even more about him. That gets back to the whole notion of character development. I see each book as a novel, but then I see the whole series as a novel - one big long novel. And so the character is always growing. If you know everything from the beginning, it's not interesting. It's hard to write...
Inspiration is a charged word, like everything is beautiful. It sounds positive. So when you're having a character brutally murder another person, does that come from inspiration? Nooo. Some kind of convoluted notion of the world has come up, and you've recorded it. But to be inspired? 'Inspired' work really sounds awful: 'The day was beautiful. The person I'm with is beautiful. We were deeply in love. We got married. We stayed together. We never cheated...
...think I have a little bit of a problem with the notion of meltdown,” he said. “I think what we have just gone through is a profound, challenging adjustment...
...institutions in which honor codes have worked best are ones in which the students actively engage in supporting the honor code and where the notion of communal responsibility emanates from the students,” says Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Noel Bisson, who previously worked with the honor code at Colgate University...
...Hazen laughed.) The collection was to be stored behind the desk in the Periodicals Room, requiring patron request for use. This ultimately didn’t work out, but only because, as Hazen put it, “The older women on staff were extraordinarily uncomfortable with the notion they’d have to be handing that stuff over...