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More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
John Hodgman
History
Creative
People
Writing
Money
Perspective
Nurture
Before
Ways
Possible
Find
About
More
More People
Talented
Talented People
Readers
Readership
Access
Were
Years
Years Ago
Lot
Very
Than
Means
Less
Less Money
Twenty
Ever
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
John Holt
Problems
Will
Before
Pay
Pay Attention
Back
Slip
Threats
Attention
Him
Does
Materials
His
Off
Child
Situations
Interest
Them
Shout
Use
Amount
Bring
I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
John Hughes
Business
First
Before
Action
Stumbled
Camera
Yelled
Train
Movies
Turned
Two
The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.
John Hume
Achievement
School
Year
Before
Complete
About
Only
Shall
Through
Had
Primary
Talk
Well
Years
Discovered
Achievements
The Only Thing
Games
Avoided
Thing
Two
Third
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
John Hume
Class
People
Before
Background
Borrow
Arrival
Were
Banks
Poor
Working
Working-Class
Union
Who
Credit
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
John Irving
Great
Me
Made
Wish
Important
Before
Hundred
Hundred Years
Those
Adolescence
Could
Write
Writer
Over
Like
Dead
Were
Years
Began
Very
Expectations
Models
Much
Helped
Novel
Novels
There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
John Irving
You
Ignorance
Long
Before
About
Write
Head
Takes
How
Lot
Your
Novel
Start
Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.
John Irving
You
Writing
Ending
Before
Research
Everybody
Else
Plotting
Write
Part
Know
Always
Anybody
Anything
Anything Else
Which
Hard
Hard Part
Novel
I try not to eat too much, but I always get hungry before a match. I make sure I have enough fuel in my body. I'll eat pasta and a little bit of protein usually. I'm pretty much eating a full meal.
John Isner
Try
Too Much
Before
Meal
Too
Enough
Bit
Hungry
Eat
Pretty
Eating
Make
Protein
Sure
Match
Always
Pasta
Get
Little
Little Bit
Fuel
Much
Body
Full
The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.
John Jakes
Day
Dark
Fire
Before
Wild
Distant
April
Ringing
Through
Hazard
Outside
He
Stepped
Tower
Stumbled
Hour
House
Balcony
Hallway
Narrow
George
Woke
Burned
Upstairs
Midnight
Then
Mansion
Bells
Last
It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Word
Before
Fact
French
Existed
Up
Curious
Essayist
English
Africa is one of my favorite places because there are so many things to do - either surfing or going to see the animals. You can drive two hours or six hours up the coast - or just 15 minutes up the road - and it's probably something you haven't seen before.
John John Florence
You
Seen
Drive
Animals
Before
Favorite
Favorite Places
See
Minutes
Something
Road
Hours
Because
Surfing
Up
Going
Six
Just
Africa
Either
Places
Coast
Many
Things
Two
I like to eat really early, 4 or 5 o'clock. That helps out a lot, to digest before you sleep.
John John Florence
You
Before
Digest
Out
Eat
Like
Lot
Really
Helps
Early
Sleep
'Battlestar Galactica' executive producer Ronald D. Moore told Tor.com that the series finale of 'Battlestar' turned out exactly as he'd intended, but there were several alternate endings that were considered before the final version was produced.
John Joseph Adams
Before
Final
Finale
Considered
Several
Battlestar Galactica
Out
Moore
Exactly
He
Executive
Executive Producer
Alternate
Were
Version
Intended
Endings
Galactica
Turned
Produced
Producer
Series
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Long
Before
London
New
Became
Been
Metropolis
York
New York
Should
Tokyo
Every film tries to advance the state of the art, at least a little bit. Brand new techniques? A lot of them are just evolutionary: we're just building on something that's like something we've done before and just trying to do it a little bit better or make it a little bit more realistic.
John Knoll
Art
Better
Building
Before
Realistic
Every
State
Bit
Evolutionary
Tries
Something
More
Advance
New
Like
Make
Least
Lot
Brand
Brand New
Trying
Done
Just
Little
Little Bit
Them
Film
Techniques
I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.
John Krasinski
Work
Best
Before
Own
Live
Way
Adjustment
Best Way
Scene
Allow
Major
Learned
Making
Whether
Rehearsal
Film
I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.
John Krasinski
Sometimes
College
Before
Wildlife
Would
Costa Rica
Guy
Spot
Walking
Taught
While
English
My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.
John Krasinski
Me
Long
Parents
Before
Incredible
Brothers
Got
Wives
Person
Formed
Hollywood
Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.
John Lahr
Life
You
Age
Joy
Nation
Before
Sweet
Eloquent
Everything
Summers
Those
Airwaves
Out
Promise
Seemed
Taking
New
Come
Like
Rock
Were
Hearts
Did
Roll
Frontier
Laid
Banquet
Us
Full
Early
Once I've properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with 'Capital,' I felt I'd spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I've not quite had before.
John Lanchester
Time
Book
Finished
Before
Sense
Think
State
Once
Way
Spent
Definitely
Characters
Would
Would-Be
About
Properly
Never
Had
Ideal
Felt
Real
Leaving
Were
Loss
Very
Quite
Behind
Being
So Much Time
Again
Them
Capital
Much
I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. Even some of our best shows have had substantial re-shoots and reworking before they've gone on the air.
John Landgraf
Best
You
Pilot
Before
Gone
Believe
Our
Air
Some
About
Casting
Had
Learn
Because
Substantial
Process
Really
Even
Shows
Deeply
Things
Tone
'Snow White and the Huntsman' was - I came in before they started shooting and basically worked on Charlize Theron's character for the most part. I guess I probably worked four or five weeks on that one and stayed during production a little bit with them.
John Lee Hancock
Character
Before
White
Guess
Bit
Stayed
Weeks
Part
Most
Came
Five
Snow
Snow White
Shooting
Little
Little Bit
Them
Worked
Production
Four
Started
Basically
Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken.
John Legend
Half
Before
Every
Eat
Chicken
Show
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
John Leguizamo
Great
Drunk
Reading
Before
Crew
Out
Yeah
Came
Go
Encouraged
Get
Us
Really
Fun
Night
Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on a sit-in, before we went on the freedom ride, before we marched from Selma to Montgomery, we would sing a song or say a prayer. Without our faith, without the spirit and spiritual bearings and underpinning, we would not have been so successful.
John Lewis
Faith
Freedom
Spiritual
Prayer
Song
Ride
Before
Our
Montgomery
Say
Out
Would
Able
Spirit
Bearing
Sing
Occasions
Without
Go
Been
Succeed
Successful
Many
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