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Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
Edward M. Lerner
Writing
Sometimes
Reading
Stage
Research
Down
Projects
New
Like
Go
Surprising
Authors
Figure
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
Edward M. Lerner
Science
Words
Other
More
Mainstream
Like
Understand
Metaphor
Least
Than
Irony
Literally
Literature
Usage
Used
Figure
Speech
When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'
Edward Said
Me
You
Become
Think
More
Still
Than
Public
Public Figure
Really
Figure
Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't respond to the failures. If we respond, and we think it through and figure out how to move ahead, then we're learning from it. That's what Pixar is.
Edwin Catmull
Work
Risks
Learning
Will
Lose
Think
Respond
Out
Some
Only
Through
Take
Part
Failures
Ideas
How
Move
Being
Pixar
Them
Work Out
Then
Successful
Figure
Teams
Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.
Elisabeth Shue
Character
You
Together
Experience
Every
Out
Able
About
Something
Only
Mystery
Never
Know
Make
How
Been
Want
Movie
The Only Thing
Crapshoot
Really
Choices
Figure
Film
Thing
On a red carpet, you really want to feel your best, so to work with a designer who will shape a dress to your figure and take into consideration your opinions is really a blessing.
Elizabeth Debicki
Work
Best
You
Blessing
Will
Consideration
Carpet
Dress
Shape
Take
Red
Feel
Red Carpet
Opinions
Want
Really
Your
Figure
Who
Designer
Antoine 'Fats' Domino was a 1950s rock n' roll pioneer, a larger-than-life New Orleans figure, and a role model for the African-American community in a time of deep segregation.
Elizabeth Flock
Time
Community
Fats
Segregation
New
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
New Orleans
Pioneer
Model
Domino
Role
Role Model
Roll
African-American
African-American Community
Figure
Deep
Orleans
Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Me
Together
Three
Wolf
Few
Nothing
Top
Out
More
Magnificent
Put
Head
Hilary
Blew
She
Read
Hall
How
Still
Years
Off
Times
Than
Trying
Which
Straight
Figure
Thing
Last
Last Few Years
I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents.
Ella Henderson
Life
Music
Myself
School
Three
My Life
Parents
Few
Spent
Out
Details
About
Online
Piano
Attend
Knew
Sort
Printed
How
Years
Handed
Taught
Wanted
Aged
Them
Notes
Then
Next
Figure
Chords
Play
Start
The Pope is not a political figure.
Elliott Abrams
Political
Figure
Pope
If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.
Elvis Mitchell
Family
You
Culture
Some
Fearsome
Point
Almost
Lights
Cuddly
Years
Off
Pop
Pop Culture
Figure
Start
Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.
Elvis Mitchell
Racism
Mind
Black
Rage
Berry
Find
Crucible
Had
Revolutionary
Place
Transitional
Created
Figure
Who
Pishevar, co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, is a powerful figure in the Valley and a bridge to establishment figures on both coasts. He cultivated a relationship with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick and publicly came to his defense when he was ousted as chief executive officer and sued by another investor.
Emily Chang
Relationship
Director
Defense
Valley
Both
He
Investor
Powerful
Executive
Another
Came
Cultivated
His
Chief
Chief Executive
Officer
Managing
Establishment
Capital
Figure
Figures
Bridge
Sued
Publicly
There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?
Emily Procter
Myself
World
Crimes
Out
Find
Am
Doing
Times
Trying
Ask
Figure
Actually
I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.
Emily Procter
Own
Emancipation
Out
Fold
My Own
Had
Bottom
Sheet
Felt
Always
How
Truly
Fitted
Up
Being
Figure
Grown-Up
I want to establish myself as someone who can act and doesn't have to rely on my figure or modelling background.
Emily Ratajkowski
Myself
Background
Someone
Rely
Modelling
Establish
Want
Act
Figure
Who
I would say Triple H is the biggest influence on my career. He's almost like a father figure. If I slip up, or there's a problem, he lets me know.
Enzo Amore
Me
Problem
Father
Father Figure
Say
Slip
Would
Triple
He
Almost
Like
Know
Up
Influence
Biggest
Biggest Influence
Figure
Lets
Career
It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
You
Out
Systems
See
Going
Just
Them
Hard
Figure
Biological
A character like mine, there is only so much you can do from a storyline perspective. You can be that heel authority figure, which I was for a few years in WWE and WCW, and it's interesting, and it's fun, but after a while, you've kind of done everything you can do creatively.
Eric Bischoff
Character
You
Perspective
Few
Everything
Mine
Kind
Only
Like
WWE
Years
Authority
Done
After
Which
While
Storyline
Interesting
Heel
Much
Figure
Fun
Creatively
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
Eric Kandel
God
People
Thought
Living
Universe
Rules
Out
Rational
Since
Scientist
Were
Mathematical
Mathematician
Whereby
Created
Figure
Function
Ever
Enlightenment
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.
Eric Schlosser
Focus
Long
Drawn
Attention
Academic
Been
Psychiatrists
Which
Figure
Even
Elites
One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.
Eric Schmidt
Buy
Negative
Value
Consequences
Broadband
Easier
Out
Has-Been
Online
Simply
Look
Advertising
Traditional
Been
Loss
End
Up
Quicker
Want
Unintended
Figure
User
Connection
Things
There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
Erma Bombeck
Out
One Thing
Eat
Never
How
Taught
Wants
Body
Figure
Thing
Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
Ernie Fletcher
Government
First
Ought
Everything
Completion
Out
Jobs
Follow
Doing
Decide
Cannot
Capable
Then
Choose
Figure
Need
I think the exploration and the search for who Jesus is, and that 2,000 years later we're still trying to figure out who He was, and did He really rise from the dead... And I think for me, the answer is 'yes,' and that's why we're talking about Him today.
Erwin McManus
Today
Me
Think
Later
Out
About
Rise
He
Dead
Him
Talking
Answer
Still
Years
Yes
Trying
Did
Really
Exploration
Figure
Who
Search
Why
Jesus
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
Erykah Badu
Life
Woman
Gone
Enough
Out
Through
Trying
Them
Dedicate
Figure
Who
Many
Whole
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