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If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to do.
Alan Bean
You
Remember
Moon
Black
Black And White
White
Back
Saw
Television
Neil
Some
Bouncing
Around
Were
Lot
Quite
Tip
Apollo
Really
Toes
Fun
Buzz
I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.
Alan Bennett
History
Will
Sit
Stage
Action
Back
Address
Out
Find
Able
Ado
More
Instance
Prose
Adventurous
Like
Talk
Make
Reader
Without
Audience
Boy
Always
Doing
Go
Up
Than
Any
Being
Break
Turn
Then
Suddenly
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
Alan Brien
Waiting
Law
Job
Men
Back
Collecting
Martial
Slum
Emergency
Give
Only
Period
Majority
Occupation
Been
Impression
End
Debt
Get
Being
Them
Really
Congenial
Who
Drafted
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
Alan Cumming
Theatre
Power
Back
Scared
Know
Because
Hamlet
Going
Afraid
After
Again
Play
I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
Alan Dershowitz
Time
Family
Me
Natural
School
Back
Once
Could
Never
Call
Learned
Although
Idle
Doing
Came
Same
Going
Taught
Same Time
Poor
Then
Working
Many
Things
Need
In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.
Alan Dershowitz
Today
Truth
Rights
World
Ideology
Radical
Human Rights
Back
Those
Claims
Distorted
Takes
Support
Ideologies
Been
False
Persist
Human
After
Exposed
Even
Seat
I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.
Alan Furst
War
Degree
Cruelty
Research
Back
Details
Torture
Horrors
Uncovered
Know
Terrible
Reader
Readers
Another
Always
Leave
Truly
Inflict
Imagine
Pull
For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.
Alan Furst
Good
You
Hero
Evil
Side
Back
Right Side
France
Kidding
Kind
John
Case
Betraying
Reader
Always
Go
Question
Going
Who
Believes
Right
Thing
Britain
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
Alan Garner
Time
Space
Long
Long Time
Back
Background
Narrow
Traditions
Oral
Going
Which
Inherited
Deep
Set
There is not a week that goes by that I don't have a dream that I am back in the business.
Alan Gerry
Business
Back
Dream
Week
Am
Goes
When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.
Alan Greenspan
History
You
Back
Look
Terribly
Prairie
Self-Reliant
Go
Were
Survive
Canadian
American
Different
American History
I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.
Alan Greenspan
Back
Never
Economist
Years
Years And Years
Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
Alan Hansen
Down
Back
City
Came
Been
Up
Manchester
While
Again
Straight
When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.
Alan Hansen
Better
Think
Back
Days
George
Graham
Fantasy
Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.
Alan Hansen
Decision
Took
Back
Definitely
Would
Mentally
Never
Football
Retired
Go
Years
Decided
Regretted
Toll
Season
Last
Playing
Last Season
All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.
Alan Kay
Together
Problem
World
Agriculture
Invent
Gathering
Back
Way
Hunting
Would
Find
Something
Could
Put
Prosper
Like
Years
Years Ago
Cultures
Worked
Businesses
Companies
Deep
I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
Alan Ladd
Life
Death
Myself
Me
People
Sit
Corner
Back
Someone
Over
Talk
Tickled
Around
Am
Slap
Shy
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
Alan Lomax
Music
Saying
Me
Book
Ought
Back
Collected
Folk
Folk Music
See
Songs
He
Knew
Days
Come
Sing
Go
American
Dylan
Bobby
Next
Used
Village
Lived
A lot of what I've done has a rock edge, even going back to 'Little Shop of Horrors.'
Alan Menken
Edge
Back
Horrors
Rock
Lot
Shop
Done
Going
Little
Even
Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was an innocent time, and a sense of discovery that we were all involved with.
Alan Menken
Life
Time
Me
World
Innocent
My Life
Sense
Every
Every Time
Back
Part
Involved
Inescapable
Were
Discovery
Just
Your
Whole
Play
I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.
Alan Menken
You
Simplicity
Think
Innocence
Back
Strikes
Mermaid
Come
Look
Sound
Years
After
Little
Thing
My favorite thing is a brand-new project from scratch because you really never know how they're going to come to life. Going back for the third and fourth time to old ones is very gratifying, but it's not my favorite use of my creativity.
Alan Menken
Life
Time
You
Creativity
Old
Back
Project
Favorite
Favorite Thing
Never
Come
Know
Because
How
Very
Going
Scratch
Old Ones
Really
Use
Gratifying
Thing
Fourth
Third
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.
Alan Moore
Music
Day
Words
Try
Listening
First
Back
Lyrics
Way
Adequacy
Would
Cartoonist
Purely
Write
Writer
Had
Songs
Delusions
Pieces
Instrumental
Get
Trying
Listen
Switched
Started
Career
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.
Alan Moore
Experience
Few
Own
Control
Speed
Back
Complete
Frames
Out
Per
Echo
Seems
Something
Through
Check
Piece
Read
Reader
Audience
Comics
Dialogue
Being
Whereas
Pace
Pages
Flip
Film
Second
Dragged
Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.
Alan Moore
Time
Character
You
Woman
Chapter
Three
Fall
Field
Back
Everything
Mine
Out
Window
Make
Read
Print
Comics
Go
In Print
Decide
Working
Your
Suddenly
Ever
By The Time
You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.
Alan Rudolph
You
Sometimes
Walk
Films
Back
Feel
Like
Know
Make
Around
Target
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