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My first success was 'Little Shop of Horrors,' and I had been working for years on jingles.
Alan Menken
Success
First
Jingles
Horrors
Had
Been
Years
Shop
Little
Working
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.
Alan Moore
Music
Day
Words
Try
Listening
First
Back
Lyrics
Way
Adequacy
Would
Cartoonist
Purely
Write
Writer
Had
Songs
Delusions
Pieces
Instrumental
Get
Trying
Listen
Switched
Started
Career
Imgur has always been profitable right from the very beginning, and the only time I ever had to spend money on it was for the initial domain name because as soon as I released it, people liked it so much that they were donating, and so Imgur survived for the first six months just purely on donations.
Alan Schaaf
Time
People
Money
First
Beginning
Spend
Months
Released
Purely
Only
Only Time
Had
Soon
Name
Liked
Because
Always
Were
Been
Domain
Very
Survived
Donations
Six
Just
Much
Initial
Ever
Right
Profitable
When we first started growing our employees, I was scared. I would often think, 'If we had more people, what would they do? Is there really enough work?'
Alan Schaaf
Work
People
First
Employees
Think
Enough
Our
Would
Scared
More
More People
Had
Often
Really
Growing
Started
The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.
Alan Shepard
Ride
First
More
Buddy
Feet
Because
Built
Off
Than
Get
Crashed
Unfortunately
Plane
Ground
Homemade
Four
New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear on a first reconnaissance mission.
Alan Stern
First
Battery
Horizons
Brought
Small
Bear
High-Tech
Powerful
New
Mission
Most
Most Powerful
Instrumentation
Scientific
Very
Spacecraft
Roughly
Ever
If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on.
Alan Stern
People
Fly
Will
First
Robot
Mars
Pluto
Could
Step
Put
Like
Most
Anybody
Wanted
Unifying
Billion
Event
Ever
Watch
Humans
Two
Imagine
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
Alan Sugar
First
Member
Admit
Laws
Through
New
Look
House
Understand
How
Lords
Gets
'Game of Thrones' was the first fantasy thing I've done, and like a lot of people who enjoy the show watching it, I didn't expect to respond to that world, but when I started doing it, I really started to love it, started to realize that some of the things I'm naturally drawn to.
Alan Taylor
Love
Game
People
World
First
Enjoy
Respond
Drawn
Some
Like
Doing
Lot
Expect
Done
To Love
Fantasy
Realize
Really
Game Of Thrones
Show
Naturally
Who
Thing
Things
Started
Watching
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
Alan Thicke
You
First
Would
Counseling
Talk
Call
Offense
Them
Ground
Second
I have some realistic humility which comes from my first career as a writer. I wrote for other people for ten years. I saw some incredible egos not based on any reality. They were great when they were on top and awful when they weren't. I learned a lot about how to treat people.
Alan Thicke
Great
Reality
People
Treat
First
Realistic
Other
Humility
Incredible
Saw
Top
Some
About
Ten
Ten Years
Writer
Wrote
Learned
How
Were
Years
Lot
Any
Egos
Which
Based
Awful
Career
People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.
Alan Vega
People
First
Back
Way
Rappers
Had
Days
Talk
Sing
Said
Reed
Lou Reed
Reason
Who
Early
Started
Early Days
Later on, when I signed with Sony, we wanted to re-release 'Fade' as 'Faded' with a brand new mix and with vocals by Iselin Solheim. I think Iselin was the first person who sung demo vocals for 'Faded.' And it worked out great! The way I got in touch with Iselin was through a guy that I work with in the studio.
Alan Walker
Work
Great
First
Think
Later
Way
Signed
Out
Sung
Touch
Vocals
Guy
Through
Fade
Studio
Faded
Sony
New
Demo
First-Person
Got
Mix
Brand
Brand New
Person
Wanted
Worked
Who
I first got sick after I had my daughter, Kimberly, 21 years ago. I'd always been energetic and never had any serious medical problems. Then I got very sick with a high fever. They told me I had mononucleosis. I became pregnant right away with Sean, and after he was born, I never seemed to recover.
Alana Stewart
Me
Problems
Daughter
First
Sick
High
Born
Seemed
Recover
Never
Had
He
Became
Always
Got
Been
Years
Years Ago
Very
Fever
Any
After
Energetic
Pregnant
Then
Sean
Serious
Away
Medical
Right
Right Away
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
Alanis Morissette
Moving On
God
Time
You
Thank God
First
Older
Able
About
More
Write
Know
First Time
Arrive
Line
Up
Thank
Same
Where
Different
Place
Informed
Little
Breakup
Different Place
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Started
The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.
Alastair Campbell
Sometimes
First
Late
Pressures
Wrong
Greater
Than
Get
Story
Right
The atmosphere and the first days of Test matches against Australia are incredible.
Alastair Cook
First
Incredible
Atmosphere
Days
Matches
Test
Australia
Against
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Me
Book
Crime
First
Enjoy
Think
Took
Books
Saw
Characters
Some
About
Genre
Read
First Time
How
Were
Been
May
Realise
Worked
Page
Used
Novel
Started
It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see someone writing about you, you have this massive emotional response to it. But after a while, it all just fades into the background noise.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Noise
Writing
First
Healthy
Few
Every
Think
Background
Response
See
About
Someone
Data
Point
Emotional
Fades
Obsess
Over
Massive
Reader
Review
Comment
Times
Just
After
While
The first act is writing, the second act is filming, the third act is releasing. If you have to partake in the third act, it hurts the first act of the next one. It's like a prizefight. You get punched.
Albert Brooks
You
Writing
Hurts
First
Punched
Releasing
Partake
Like
Get
Next
Act
Second
Filming
Third
I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.
Albert Brooks
Day
You
Every Day
Made
First
Before
Every
Cinematographer
Would
About
Driver
Come
Like
Talk
Learned
Terrific
Course
How
Doing
Came
Graduate
Just
Being
Breaks
Taxi
Taxi Driver
Ask
Electrician
Film
Why
Watch
Set
My first six months were in Japan; then I went to Mexico and then went back to Japan. I had the opportunity to wrestle all the wrestlers from the United States, Europe, and Japan when I was there.
Alberto Del Rio
Opportunity
First
Back
Months
States
Wrestle
Wrestlers
Had
Were
Mexico
Six
Japan
Then
Europe
United
United States
When I won my first MMA fight, I put myself out there for the world to see me.
Alberto Del Rio
Myself
Me
Fight
World
First
Out
See
Put
Won
I always had fun with my great friend Rey Mysterio Jr. I think it would be fantastic to have my very last match against someone like him because my very first match in WWE was against Rey Mysterio Jr. I know that all the pro wrestling fans, in particular the Mexican fans, would love to see Rey Mysterio against me for my very last match.
Alberto Del Rio
Love
Great
Me
Fans
First
Think
Would
Would-Be
See
Someone
Wrestling
Had
Particular
Like
Know
Him
Because
Match
WWE
Always
Mexican
Friend
Very
Pro
Against
Fantastic
Fun
Last
We have the right to go and try new things and, if those things don't work, go back to what we were doing at first.
Alberto Del Rio
Work
Try
First
New Things
Back
Those
New
Doing
Go
Were
Right
Things
We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.
Alberto Fujimori
Three
First
Fighting
Given
Terrorists
Were
Years
Governments
While
Former
Succeeding
Shown
Last
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