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I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.
John Irving
Alone
Me
Writing
Imagination
Kid
About
More
Except
Had
Feel
Non-Fiction
Being
Anything
Being Alone
Interest
Unique
Using
All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.
John Leguizamo
Mask
Way
Draw
Except
Smarter
Camouflage
Artists
Which
Lives
I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin person in Hollywood or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.
John Leguizamo
Time
Character
You
Man
Negative
Saw
Latin
TV
Some
Except
Invisible
Sort
Were
Up
Maturing
Person
Any
Where
Hollywood
Growing
Growing Up
Nowhere
Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.
John Morrison
Everything
TV
Wrestling
Except
Football
Off-Season
Basketball
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.
John O. Brennan
Nature
Intelligence
Strong
Action
Believe
Strike
Imminent
Threat
Recourse
Except
Take
Individuals
Counterterrorism
Involve
Well
Front
May
Where
Again
Against
Actions
Serious
Base
Lethal
Grave
All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.
John Polson
Love
Best
Good
Me
Women
Men
Superior
Energy
One Or Two
Having
Except
Feel
Around
Female
Women Are
Friends
Them
Two
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
John Sladek
Problem
Language
Alive
Able
Except
Read
Makes
Privilege
List
Any
Being
Century
Meaningless
Illiterate
I used almost every penny I ever made to build recording studios in every city I lived in. I don't have much to show for all the TV money except a lot of musical gear and a lot of songs.
John Tesh
Money
Made
Penny
Recording
Build
Every
Musical
TV
City
Gear
Except
Songs
Studios
Almost
Lot
Much
Used
Show
Lived
Ever
In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was a cult film.' I'd say, 'Oh, great, well I hope this one isn't!' I always say to Johnny Knoxville, 'How do you do it? You sort of do the same thing we did, except you made millions, and I made hundreds.'
John Waters
Hope
Great
You
Business
Made
Same Thing
Hundreds
Say
Would
Johnny
Except
Never
Well
Sort
Always
How
Cult
Get
Trying
Did
Same
Any
Oh
Next
Your
Film
Film Business
Thing
Last
Millions
Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'
John Waters
Mom
Remember
Trouble
Baby
Liberal
Worst
Except
Demented
Cry
Cecil
Any
Them
Serial
I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em.
Johnny Knoxville
Love
Tabloids
Except
I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.
Johnny Thunders
Change
Balance
Except
Bank
Thing
I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
Jonathan Galassi
Think
Somehow
Poetry
Except
Prose
Like
Read
Line
Very
Acknowledged
Breaks
Much
Should
Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.
Jonathan Galassi
Best
Book
World
Amazing
Everything
Telling
Except
Make
His
Itself
Author
Getting
Different
Hold
Working
Her
Publishing
I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.
Jonny Greenwood
Me
You
People
Car
Mind
Same Thing
Interviewing
Though
Telling
Guitars
Fine
About
Something
Except
Could
Write
Well
Talking
Same
Either
Interest
Novelist
Thing
You can accuse Europeans of being many things - except fast.
Jose Angel Gurria
You
Except
Accuse
Being
Many
Europeans
Fast
Things
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Joseph Addison
Criticism
Defense
Except
Obscurity
Against
Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
Joseph Barbera
Family
Me
Draw
Except
Could
No-One
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.
Joseph Brodsky
Criticism
Nothing
Follows
Poem
Except
Line
Literary
After
Literary Criticism
Last
I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.
Josiah Royce
Me
People
World
Thought
Feeling
Feelings
Other
Unlike
Except
Could
Never
Knew
Know
Fellows
Felt
After
Patterns
Set
Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.
Joyce Carol Oates
Work
Wonderful
Negative
Otherwise
Out
Unaware
Totally
Potential
Except
Attention
Individuals
Readers
Singling
Been
Which
Them
Might
Who
Many
Awards
Deserving
Thing
Bringing
Competitive
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
Judith Anderson
Life
Man
Woman
Heart
Nothing
Except
She
Builds
Enduring
Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.
Judy Sheindlin
Day
Judge
Father
Nothing
One Day
Would
Would-Be
Except
Simply
Known
Judy
Childhood
Maybe
Anyone
Standing
Early
Here
Suggested
Early Childhood
My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my mother and my grandfather. To be truthful, I cannot remember one meaningful conversation I had with my father.
Juergen Teller
Family
Me
Conversation
Business
Remember
Mother
Father
Took
Except
Never
Had
No-One
Encouraged
Walked
Truthful
Family Business
Did
After
Cannot
Interest
Grandfather
Meaningful
Really
Even
Away
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
Julian Fellowes
Every
Think
Some
Something
Except
Merits
Period
Century
There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do.
Julianne Moore
Me
School
Club
Drama
Kind
Seemed
Something
Except
Could
Doing
After
After-School
Much
Started
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