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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
Karin Slaughter
People
Writing
Bad Things
Thirty
Spend
Bad
Would
About
Small
Small Town
Town
Because
Least
Still
Years
Wonder
Begin
Same
Want
Anyone
Happening
Next
Why
Lives
Things
Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
Karin Slaughter
Business
Words
Side
Books
Email
Characters
Dream
Couch
Write
Most
Nap
Lines
Up
Begin
Handle
Maybe
Middle
Story
Which
Story Lines
Then
Business Side
Laptop
Many
Here
Desk
Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
Kate Winslet
Cheeky
Male
Lots
Begin
Friendships
Little
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
Seriously
Our
Immense
Laugh
Ourselves
Take
Failures
Importance
Learn
Begin
Afraid
Them
Means
I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
Kathy Mattea
Picture
Record
Some
Gel
Something
Point
Know
Always
Jump
Begin
Begins
Get
Going
Where
Process
Then
We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
Kenneth L. Pike
Speak
Language
Assume
Otherwise
Complex
Structure
Could
Individual
He
How
Least
His
Begin
Which
Speaks
Internal
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page.
Kevin Brockmeier
You
First
Top
Tell
Never
Until
Begin
Centered
Story
Title
Working
Page
I usually know where I want to end up when I begin, but I have no idea how I'm going to get there... I don't write with an outline, and surprises happen on the way, and sometimes it changes.
Kevin Henkes
Sometimes
Changes
Way
No Idea
Outline
Write
Idea
Know
How
Surprises
End
Up
Begin
Get
Going
Where
Want
Happen
Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.
Kevin Kwan
Thought
Believe
Complete
Say
Characters
Write
Writers
Never
Always
Begin
Often
Hogwash
Themselves
Used
Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a place for it and narrow down. It's, really, just start small, and as I'm writing it, I begin to see - sometimes to my own surprise - what's unfolding and what's blooming.
Khaled Hosseini
Me
Writing
Sometimes
Own
Down
Starts
Everything
Find
See
Rarely
My Own
Small
Idea
Narrow
Surprise
Very
Begin
Blooming
Just
Unfolding
Grand
Place
Really
Start
The deal is such that when I begin writing something, I open a door, and those characters come in, and then they won't leave, and so I live with them every day, all day. They are there with me when I'm driving my kids to school, when I'm standing in line at the grocery store.
Khaled Hosseini
Day
Me
Every Day
Writing
School
Live
Every
Those
All Day
Kids
Characters
Something
Open
Driving
Come
Deal
Leave
Line
Begin
Store
Door
Them
Then
Grocery
Grocery Store
Standing
I'm still proud of who I am, of my youth, and I feel like now, as individuals, we begin to realise that we can change the future. We all have to participate.
Khalid
Future
Change
Youth
Individuals
Feel
Participate
Like
Proud
Am
Still
Begin
Realise
Who
Now
From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Great
Space
Will
Astronomy
More
Firmament
Study
New
Devices
New Era
Era
Rocket
Begin
Intensive
Epoch
Moment
Using
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.
Kurt Bills
Hope
People
Political
Ideology
Virtue
Philosophy
Perceived
Economic
Individual
Develop
Understand
How
Fiscal
Political Ideology
Begin
Realities
Realization
Comparison
Differs
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
Lalla Ward
Great
You
Burden
Guilt
Everybody
Bore
Properly
Had
Advantages
Feel
She
Felt
Understand
Been
Tragedy
Begin
Used
Appearing
Play
Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
Lamar Alexander
Win
Later
Presidential
Presidential Race
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Does
Begin
Any
Candidate
Race
Need
With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.
Lana Wachowski
You
Bound
Stereotypes
Come
Because
Exist
Wonder
Begin
Where
Wanted
Subtext
Conventions
Use
Why
Pull
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
Laurence Sterne
Passion
Waver
Our
Constantly
Principals
Return
Frenzy
Shift
Begin
Reason
We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.
Leah Ward Sears
You
Disagree
Country
Civil
Guy
Another
Still
Discourse
Accomplished
Yell
Friends
Very
Begin
Get
Scream
Again
Little
Mean
Acquaintances
Much
Next
Shout
Level
Raise
Need
People have got to form some kind of unified fronts where you know who your allies are, you know who your friends are, and really begin to work together to create different kinds of infrastructures to protect one another and to help one another thrive.
Lecrae
Work
You
Together
People
Thrive
Different Kinds
Kind
Kinds
Some
Allies
Know
Protect
Another
Got
Friends
Begin
Fronts
Where
Different
Form
Unified
Work Together
Create
Really
Your
Help
Who
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.
Leo Ornstein
Today
Music
Language
Value
Recording
Enough
Intrinsic
He
Piece
Until
Make
Aesthetic
Hear
Begin
Times
Gets
Estimate
Acquainted
Then
Really
Thing
I love theater - it's where every actor should begin, the core of acting. But I feel that there's something about film that's captivating; it takes you to another , and you get to really be so connected with it.
Letitia Wright
Love
You
Every
About
Something
Takes
Feel
Another
Begin
Get
Where
Theater
Really
Should
Acting
Connected
Captivating
Film
Actor
Core
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Enterprise
Begin
Get
Any
Done
Essential
Two
The good thing about me is, I only do deals with people that I love to begin with.
Lilly Singh
Love
Good
Me
People
About
Only
Good Thing
Deals
Begin
Thing
My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.
Lincoln Child
Writing
Job
College
First
Year
Before
Own
Ladder
Rejection
Books
Typing
Spent
Paperwork
Out
Must
Would-Be
Purgatory
New
First Job
House
Editorial
Editors
Begin
York
New York
Being
Endure
Ascend
Acquiring
Filing
Letters
Publishing
Publishing House
Assistant
Copy
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
Lindsey Graham
Generation
Big
Herd
Baby
Boomer
System
Through
Retire
Like
Well
Begin
Whole
Elephant
Elephants
Marches
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