FOR /fûr/ noção de finalidade, propósito — I'm writing a book for children We got new table for the dinner room I will send this for you

TO /tu:/ noção de direção, ir para algum lugar, movimento, destino

PADRÕES - GOING TO - SHOW TO - LISTEN TO

PADRÕES - do for - translate for - fight for

"Teenagers scrolling down their facebook feeds while walking on the streets are sitting ducks for thieves".

"John ratted on his sister to their parents". "The thief ratted on his companions to avoid jail time"

"John is always rabbiting on about his many dates with many girls"

I can't wait to meet her She can't wait to find a new job I can't wait for my vacation I can't hardly wait to buy a new computer

TOO / AS WELL / ALSO TOO: no final das frases. SEMPRE. TOO MUCH: demais, antes de adv ou adj AS WELL: frases afirmativas. No final. NOT ONLY, BUT ALSO ALSO: ...

ALSO 1. frase + ponto final + ALSO + frase que adicione uma ideia a primeira frase 2. entre o pronome e o verbo

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

Affirmations don't make something happen; they make something welcome.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

But youve got to make choices and youre not going to be right all the time.

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

I have done quite a lot of outsider figures.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.

Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.

I've always been an old soul.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.

I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm running against Mitt Romney or Sen. Hatch.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?