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Tag Archives: movie
Postscript
The film The Promise is still playing in the theaters in Montreal. I had the chance to see it last month. The sad part was that there were only fourteen people in the theater, myself included. I wanted so much … Continue reading
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Tagged Armenia, Armenian, Armenian Genocide, article, blogging, death, film, grandparents, life, love, memories, movie, people, The Promise
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1.5 Million Reasons To Live Laugh And Move Forward
Today is April 24. It’s a day where all Armenians around the world march by the thousands on the streets of their cities both in memory of the 1.5 million Armenians massacred by the Turks and to demand justice. The thing … Continue reading
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Tagged Armenia, Armenian, Armenian Genocide, Charlotte Le Bon, Christian Bale, film, genocide, grandparents, holocaust, Jews, movie, Oscar Isaac, people, The Promise
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Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
On Sunday night, I watched the movie “Limitless” starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro,based on the novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn. The film is about a writer, Eddie Morra (played by Bradley Cooper), who is blocked and … Continue reading
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Tagged creative, dreams, experiences, fear, feelings, film, inspiration, memories, movie, novel, relationships, thoughts, write, writing
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Who Can Forget A Gag
For the past few months I have been posting articles about writing, something I love to do most and talk about most, but as Hillaire Belloc writes: “Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about … Continue reading
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Tagged art, author, book, books, characters, comedy, creative writing, diary, drama, dreams, emotion, feelings, fiction, film, happy, Hollywood, ideas, imagination, inspiration, library, life, literature, love, memories, movie, music, novel, people, poetry, reading, story, thoughts, truth, words, work, write, writer, writing, writing tips
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Did Nicholas Sparks Copy?
When I first read “A Walk To Remember” in 1999, by Nicholas Sparks, I was reminded of another novel “Love Story” that I had read decades earlier. “Love Story” is a novel written by Erich Segal in 1970, which was … Continue reading
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Tagged author, book, books, character, dream, dreams, emotions, Ernest Hemingway, faith, feelings, fiction, film, heart, hope, ideas, life, literature, love, Love Story, magic, movie, notebook, novel, people, plot, read, reader, reading, soul, story, theme, thoughts, truth, wish, words, write, writer, writing
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Something Mysterious About The Night
W. Somerset Maugham wrote: “In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, basketball, best friend, body, books, camp, city, civil war, class, community, country, dark, darkness, Ellie Wiesel, friendly, friends, gunman, ice-cream, laugh, light, lights, long, love, moments, monster, movie, my, nation, night, people, politics, summer, talk, theatre, things, University, walk
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Rejection!
Rejection, or the “R” word, is the most dreaded word of a writer. It is so powerful that it can have a negative impact on the writer, so much so that some writers have great difficulty in handling it and … Continue reading
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Tagged agent, Amazon, Amazon UK, author, book, books, character, creative writing, digital, e-book, emotions, English, feelings, fiction, good, internet, library, life, literature, living, market, movie, news, novel, online, plot, price, publishers, read, reading, rejection, sale, Saul Bellow, story, truth, words, world, writer, writers
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The Voice Of Change
As you may all know by now, I like to start my day waking up early to read and have my coffee. I stopped reading the newspaper lately. I realized that on days I do not read the paper, I … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, beauty, book, books, change, children, compassion, culture, e-book, Ernest Hemingway, ethics, film, future, good, Jersey Shore, John Grisham, Leo Tolstoy, life, movie, news, newspaper, noise, novel, people, read, reading, reality tv, script, speak, story, teenagers, tv, University, values, voice, words, writer, writing, young
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