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My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.
Daniel Handler
Work
Money
First
Took
Sold
Finally
Had
Smallest
Almost
Years
Sell
Times
Six
Fiction
Literary
Agent
Then
Interim
Novel
Ever
Amount
Rejected
Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads.
Daniel Levitin
People
Every
Changed
Our
Ancestors
Detail
Slowly
Could
Throughout
Almost
Heads
Know
Because
Encountered
Same
Social
Groups
Keep
Lived
Lives
Needed
Only Americans vote for their president, but foreigners care almost as much - and sometimes more - about who will lead the most powerful nation in the world.
Daniel Lubetzky
Vote
World
Sometimes
Care
Will
Nation
President
About
More
Only
Lead
Almost
Powerful
Powerful Nation
Most
Most Powerful
Foreigners
American
Much
Who
Apple is very, very good at almost everything it does, and that includes corporate communications.
Daniel Lyons
Good
Corporate
Everything
Almost
Almost Everything
Does
Very
Communications
Apple
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.
Daniel Tammet
Learning
Language
Long
Lost
Consider
Bit
Almost
Over
Like
Accent
Practising
Been
Years
So Many Years
Social
Skills
Many
Social Skills
I grew up spending a lot of time in church, almost every day, whether in choir rehearsal or praise team or Bible study - there was always a reason.
Danielle Brooks
Time
Day
Bible
Every Day
Church
Every
Spending
Almost
Study
Almost Every Day
Always
Praise
Lot
Up
Grew
Whether
Choir
Team
Reason
Rehearsal
It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.
Danielle Dax
Quality
Recording
Bad
Almost
Like
Makes
Often
Which
Interesting
Them
Things
My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.
Danny Aiello
Business
Sometimes
Father
Dinner
Every
Months
Tell
Would
Never
He
Almost
Come
Cleveland
Around
Exist
Friends
Six
I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.
Danny Boyle
Impossible
Almost
Days
Suspense
Mean
Twists
I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.
Danny Boyle
People
Cinema
Impossible
Ending
Single
Before
Every
Never
Almost
Days
Knows
Audience
Single Person
Blogging
Person
Endings
Done
Suspense
Where
Mean
Your
Film
Seats
Twists
Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.
Danny Elfman
Love
Time
Down
Spend
Would
Guys
Week
Laying
Never
Almost
Just
Which
Patterns
Roomful
Certainly
Film
Need
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
Danny Glover
Education
Freedom
School
Active
Summer
Project
High
High School
Rite
Almost
Voter
Mississippi
Massive
Becoming
Passage
Graduated
In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.
Danny Meyer
You
Respect
Try
Will
Else
Everyone
Once
Easier
Restaurant
More
Open
Almost
Attention
Almost Everyone
New
Sport
Because
Reviews
New Place
Than
Get
York
Irrespective
New York
Place
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Media
Spectator
Today, it's almost the outlier if people are not photographing what they ate and then sharing that in real time.
Danny Meyer
Today
Time
People
Ate
Photographing
Sharing
Almost
Real
Real Time
Then
A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.
Daphne Oz
You
Fruit
Dairy
Every
Variety
Delights
Vegetable
Pick
Almost
Access
Fresh
Still
Fish
Diet
Grains
Craving
Your
Products
Special
Whole
Satisfy
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
Dar Williams
You
Musicians
Strange
People
Song
Superstition
Through
Rituals
Write
Almost
Sort
Go
Encounter
Amongst
Need
If I'm dehydrated, my muscles feel almost squeaky.
Darcey Bussell
Almost
Feel
Muscles
When you spend almost two years out talking to people, praying with them, and really finding out some of those tough issues that are impacting them, it makes a lasting impression on you.
Darryl Glenn
You
People
Tough
Lasting
Spend
Those
Out
Finding
Some
Almost
Talking
Makes
Issues
Years
Praying
Impression
Them
Really
Two
The name James Baldwin had been around the house for as long as I could remember and meant almost as much as that of Martin Luther King.
Darryl Pinckney
Remember
King
Long
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Could
Had
Almost
Name
House
Around
Been
James
Much
Meant
Luther
I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.
Dave Brubeck
You
Experience
Nights
Out
Hoping
Inspired
Almost
Always
Where
Body
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
Dave Eggers
Hope
Respect
World
Every
Think
Books
Would
Would-Be
About
Civility
Writer
Almost
Talked
Always
Depth
Seriousness
Lucasfilm called me out of the blue, and I almost hung up because I thought it was a practical joke. This was right before 'Revenge Of The Sith' came out. Here you are, a big 'Star Wars' fan, talking about 'Star Wars' all the time, and you have your master replica lightsaber, and then you get a call from Lucasfilm for a job?
Dave Filoni
Time
Me
You
Revenge
Job
Thought
Joke
Master
Big
Before
Hung
Out
Out Here
About
Almost
Practical
Call
Talking
Because
Came
Up
Replica
Get
Blue
Big Star
Fan
Then
Your
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Right
Here
No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't.
Dave Franco
Work
You
Sometimes
Passion
Sets
Incredible
Everything
Project
Out
Bad
Give
Given
Bad Movie
No-One
Put
Almost
Make
Always
Got
Lot
Times
Any
Behind
Just
Movie
Works
Ever
Amount
I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead of a window. I thought it was kind of a cool idea.
David Allee
Me
Thought
Painting
Kind
Would
See
Window
Windows
Instead
Almost
Idea
Like
Looked
Real
Were
Wall
Often
Cool
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
David Bohm
Travel
Technology
Communication
World
Past
Few
Other
Air
Air Travel
TV
Woven
Network
Instant
Part
Contact
Puts
Almost
Parts
Decades
Modern
Modern Technology
Which
Radio
Satellites
Each
I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.
David Byrne
Day
Every Day
Ride
Path
Every
Similar
River
Almost
Almost Every Day
New
Protected
Fairly
Safer
Opposed
Hudson
York
Getting
New York
Bike
Riding
Streets
Here
Alert
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