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Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.
Jess Walter
Failure
You
Struggle
Book
Money
Gorgeous
Fall
Enough
Otherwise
Market
Embrace
Stubborn
Write
Categories
Well
Make
Well Enough
Narrow
Discovered
Forget
Being
Happen
Little
Might
Then
Little Money
Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.
Jesse Harris
Life
Music
Big
Brazil
Down
Later
Record
Had
Like
Until
His
Discovered
Lot
Big Influence
Artist
Artists
Famous
Influence
Much
Who
Recently
I cut school to read Shakespeare and to learn about that because, for the first time, I felt like I really discovered a passion - the passion of my life.
Jessica Chastain
Life
Time
School
Passion
My Life
First
About
Shakespeare
Like
Learn
Read
Because
Felt
First Time
Discovered
Cut
Really
Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.
Jessica Lange
Words
Language
Difficult
Easy
Shakespeare
Misconception
Perfect
Emotional
Written
Because
Discovered
Very
Intelligent
Expansive
Brilliantly
I recently discovered the work of Giorgio Manganelli, who wrote a collection called 'Centuria,' which contains 100 stories, each of them about a page long. They're somewhat surreal and extremely dense, at once fierce and purifying, the equivalent of a shot of grappa. I find it helpful to read one before sitting down to write.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Work
Long
Before
Down
Once
Extremely
Collection
Find
About
Purifying
Somewhat
Write
Contains
Wrote
Read
Equivalent
Discovered
Surreal
Dense
Sitting
Stories
Which
Fierce
Them
Shot
Page
Who
Helpful
Each
Recently
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.
Jill Scott
Music
Writing
Energy
Jazz
Pulse
Musical
Background
Poe
Shakespeare
Could
Almost
Like
Hip-Hop
Hear
Hear Music
Discovered
Grade
Authors
Eighth
Eighth Grade
Rhythm
Certain
Works
Her
Playing
The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.
Jimmy Cliff
First
Before
Could
Sing
Singer
First Thing
Discovered
The First Thing
Wanted
Even
Actor
Thing
I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.
Jodi Kantor
Together
Marriage
Experience
Holding
White
White House
Down
Difficult
Think
Other
Guess
About
Seemed
Generally
Never
True
Almost
Most
House
Periods
Were
Discovered
Very
Reporting
Interesting
Found
Things
Universal
Coincide
I used to watch MTV when they played music, and discovered Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey.
Joe Bonamassa
Music
Ray
Robert
Stevie
Discovered
Used
Jeff
Played
Watch
'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.
Joe Wright
Life
Me
Dark
Made
My Life
Before
Changed
Side
Charles
Poetry
Chaucer
Spoke
Velvet
Like
Ecstasy
Reached
Read
Understand
Terror
Always
Been
Discovered
Sublime
Forever
Blue
Suddenly
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
John Burdett
You
Memory
People
Past
Few
Back
Those
India
Find
Total
About
Generations
Countries
Like
Talking
Go
Discovered
Thailand
Where
Commonplace
Used
Lanka
Certainty
Lives
Earlier
I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
John Corbett
Life
Hurt
College
My Life
Changed
Steel
Factory
Got
Discovered
Junior
Junior College
Where
Acting
Actually
I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.
John Corbett
Love
Me
Will
Magazine
Magazine Cover
Talk
Talk Show
Because
Cover
Discovered
Get
Maybe
Really
Act
Show
On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
John Dyer
Home
Paradise
Own
Living
Cornwall
Our
France
Neighbour
My Own
Tropical
Return
Content
Am
Discovered
Explore
Now
Nearest
Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message.
John Hench
You
Somebody
Too
City
Price
Cheap
Wrong
Over
Like
Supposed
Message
Because
Got
Were
Discover
Discovered
Where
Place
Skeletons
Public
Then
Used
Many
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
I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered.
John Legend
Feels
Know
Singer
How
Discovered
Get
Wants
Who
During 'Jersey Boys,' I discovered one of the most rewarding ways to use your goodwill is to motivate fans and friends into lending support to charity.
John Lloyd Young
Charity
Fans
Ways
Support
Goodwill
Most
Boy
Motivate
Discovered
Friends
Rewarding
Lending
Use
Your
Jersey
Because of Hubble and other telescopes, we've now discovered that there are probably planets around every star, or virtually every star. There are solar systems around most stars. And the fact that we're here on a planet, Earth, means that it's likely there's lots of other Earths out there.
John M. Grunsfeld
Solar
Stars
Every
Other
Virtually
Earth
Out
Systems
Fact
Most
Likely
Because
Around
Discovered
Hubble
Lots
Planet
Planet Earth
Planets
Means
Star
Now
Here
I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music. I wanted to be a flamenco guitar player.
John McLaughlin
Music
Crazy
Guitar
Before
Jazz
Guitar Player
About
Involved
Got
Discovered
Wanted
Jazz Music
Even
Player
The main difference to me with Lyft is the sense of community and social experience. The pink mustache, fist bump and strict screening have fostered a strong sense of community with many stories of new friends, discovered jobs, and even some Lyft hugs after a tough break up.
John Zimmer
Me
Experience
Strong
Strict
Tough
Sense
Community
Jobs
Mustache
Strong Sense
Some
Main
New
New Friends
Discovered
Fist
Pink
Bump
Up
Friends
HUGS
Difference
Screening
Stories
After
Break
Break Up
Social
Many
Even
Fostered
It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.
Jolene Blalock
Me
Happy
Few
Stage
Took
Several
Out
More
Accept
Am
Years
Discovered
Process
Place
Figure
Who
Now
Enjoyment
I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Science
World
Stress
Own
Way
Ways
Those
Able
Martial
Martial Arts
My Own
Buddhist
Knowing
Became
Practices
Reduction
Discovered
Arts
Grew
Loved
Which
Karmic
Unique
Bridge
Assignment
Program
The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.
Jon Scieszka
Good
Problem
Big
Reading
Worse
Kids
Kind
Gigantic
Spiral
Guys
Since
Piece
Liking
Terrible
Read
Years
Discovered
Years Ago
Five
Get
Big Problem
Getting
Six
Just
Really
Less
Thing
Started
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
Jonah Hill
Me
Heart
Writing
First
He
Got
Audition
Discovered
Dustin Hoffman
Little
Then
Acting
Film
Started
Plays
I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.
Jonathan Evison
Old
Drinking
William
John
Charles
Through
Buddy
His
Years
Discovered
Strangely
Who
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