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We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
Arthur Erickson
Architecture
Research
Neither
Threat
Consultants
Takes
Industry
Limited
Nor
Provide
Itself
Which
Litigation
Choice
Regulations
Forward
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Arthur Erickson
Today
Knowledge
Our
Thorough
Period
Fairly
Because
Motivations
Same
Early
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
Arthur Erickson
History
Has-Been
Results
Performed
Been
Western
Done
Achieved
Deed
Actions
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Arthur Erickson
Alone
Consumption
Mass
Industry
Line
Goal
Dominated
North
North America
America
Production
Standardization
Assembly
Assembly Line
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
Arthur Hailey
Humor
President
General
General Motors
Motors
Foul
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
Arthur Hailey
Life
Real Life
Think
Drawn
Invented
Real
Anybody
Really
I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
Arthur Hailey
Education
Learning
Go
Yes
Did
Want
Loved
Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
Arthur Hailey
Remember
Long
First
Those
Would
Anguish
Week
Days
October
Afterwards
Many
Two
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
Arthur Hailey
History
Travel
People
Writing
Met
Before
Able
Some
Uncovered
Also
Been
Discovered
Began
Did
Which
Fascinating
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
Arthur Hiller
Doctor
Wife
See
Opened
Him
His
Walking
Office
Being
Flashback
Dying
Story
Then
Originally
Film
Streets
Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.
Arthur Hiller
Work
Together
Joy
Say
Must
Enthusiastic
He
Very
Anyway
Script
Worked
Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.
Arthur Hiller
You
Remember
Ali
Scene
Well
Snow
Improvised
Playing
I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
Arthur Hiller
Thought
Nice
Too
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
How
Making
Were
Movie
Regarded
Little
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
Arthur Hiller
Happiness
Doctor
Ali
Scene
Had
Share
Come
Know
Office
Move
Movie
After
Decided
Viewers
Two-Thirds
We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
Arthur Hiller
Picture
Few
Crew
Corners
Back
Additional
Paramount
Some
Brought
Small
Boston
Footage
Budget
Go
Shoot
Cut
Us
Let Us
We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.
Arthur Hiller
Morning
Whatever
Down
Our
Through
He
Idea
Come
Motel
Up
Up And Down
Jumping
Pacing
Room
Working
Across
Start
Night
Two
People tell me how great it must have been to ride horses and stuff. Well, do it for two days straight on dusty days when the cows and horses were really tired.
Arthur Slade
Great
Me
Tired
People
Ride
Tell
Must
Horses
Stuff
Days
Well
How
Were
Been
Cows
Dusty
Straight
Really
Ride Horses
Two
The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything.
Arthur Slade
Setting
Valley
Easily
Could
Prairie
Western
Anything
Fantasy
Novel
Lived
As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.
Arthur Slade
Good
Family
You
People
Writing
Feedback
Reading
Books
Once
Members
More
Review
Times
Get
Family Members
Getting
Just
While
Paid
Your
Actually
Enjoyable
Start
When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
Arthur Slade
Writing
Problem
Believe
Audience
Getting
Biggest
Story
Literature
Biggest Problem
Your
Elements
It seems so easy to write about some normal event and twist it a little bit to make it into a supernatural event.
Arthur Slade
Bit
Easy
Some
About
Seems
Supernatural
Write
Make
Normal
Little
Little Bit
Event
Twist
The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.
Arthur Slade
You
Try
Too Much
Feeling
Imagination
Too
Prolong
Able
Horrible
Horrible Things
Writer
Know
Make
Sort
Without
Making
Goal
Frightening
Going
Grey
Succeeded
Then
Much
Really
Your
Describing
Things
Imagine
There's not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there's something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor.
Ashleigh Banfield
Me
Perseverance
Humor
Difficult
Other
Ways
Admire
About
Something
He
Stuff
Stern
Tickle
Industry
Content
Does
Howard Stern
His
Lot
Very
Certain
I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
Ashleigh Banfield
War
Fight
Endeavor
Hesitant
Like
Looked
Courageous
Terrific
Another
Sure
Because
American
Again
Them
I'm a hockey coach and a single mother of two who commutes. I don't watch TV. I watch news, and that's it!
Ashleigh Banfield
News
Mother
Single
TV
Single Mother
Hockey
Coach
Who
Watch
Two
Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street.
Ashleigh Banfield
People
Walk
Seen
Few
Enough
Syria
Arabia
Through
Had
Jordan
Spoken
Countries
Like
Lebanon
Iran
Iraq
Very
Few People
Them
Fortunate
Many
Street
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
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