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Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
Iris Johansen
Writing
Situation
Drama
High
Solving
Mystery
Writer
Puzzle
Involves
Suspense
Whereby
It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
Irrfan Khan
Work
You
Quality
High
Gives
Surely
International
Actor
I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
Irv Kupcinet
Government
Me
School
Old
Wish
Become
Group
Drama
Late
Side
High
High Schools
Could
Student
Outside
Students
Football
Part
Football Team
Schools
Were
West
West Side
Chicago
Offer
Available
Newspaper
Team
Activities
My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
Irv Kupcinet
Me
Class
School
Year
Saw
Out
High
Responsive
High School
Touched
Weekly
Students
Putting
Journalism
Freshman
Freshman Year
Were
Where
Newspaper
Chord
We used to live five minutes from the local cricket club in High Wycombe. My brother Kaush, who is seven years older, played there.
Isa Guha
Club
Live
Older
Cricket
Local
Seven
High
Brother
Minutes
Years
Five
Used
Who
Played
I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
Isaac Hayes
Time
School
Stage
Symphony
Saw
Strings
Those
High
Wow
High School
Bows
Always
Same
Orchestra
Same Time
Loved
Moving
Playing
There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.
Isaac Yeffet
Best
Air
Siege
Way
Aircraft
Negotiating
High
Security
Best Way
Having
Only
Both
Put
Implemented
Hijacking
Qualified
Trained
Done
Stop
While
Personnel
Much
Ground
Therefore
Levels
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.
Isabella Bird
Fruit
Beauty
Tree
Broad
High
Worthy
Superb
About
Architectural
Exceeding
Delicate
Take
Throwing
Foot
Feet
Sharply
Leaves
Shining
Contrast
Green
Form
Place
Cut
Deep
Pale
Ornament
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Issey Miyake
Work
Technology
Try
High
Touch
Computers
Put
Always
Hand
Even
The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how I view myself in a professional and personal capacity. So he encouraged me to set the bar very high for myself, to set great goals for myself.
Ivanka Trump
Myself
Great
Me
Goals
Father
Think
Way
High
About
He
Female
How
Encouraged
Very
Role
Personal
Bar
Informative
Capacity
Really
View
Professional
Raised
Set
I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.
Iyanla Vanzant
Great
You
Wise
Learning
Woman
Age
People
Responsibility
Other
Way
High
About
Great Responsibility
Know
Calling
Where
Information
Moving
Utilizing
Serve
I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.
Izabella Scorupco
Good
Girl
High
High Heels
Sexy
Dresses
Name
Wanted
Heels
Bond
Bond Girl
Funky
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
J. B. Pritzker
Education
Health
Quality
Care
Focus
Young
Resources
High
Rate
High-Quality
Dividends
Investment
Betting
Supporting
Know
Return
Health Care
Making
Very
Childhood
Children
Young Children
Pays
Early
Early Childhood
Guaranteed
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
J. C. Chandor
Great
Me
History
Science
Photography
Theatre
School
Painting
Drama
Took
Saw
High
Classes
Some
High School
Something
Had
Highly
Like
Because
Got
Motivated
Math
Math And Science
Subjects
Grades
Decent
Arts
Really
English
In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Phone
School
Car
Thought
Long
Become
Fall
High
Dinners
High School
Cheap
Because
Boy
Least
Were
Began
Pizza
Conversations
Suburban
Might
Who
Rides
Marathon
Actually
A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Books
Has-Been
High
High Percentage
Percentage
Written
Been
Des Moines
Each
Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.
J. D. Hayworth
Solar
State
Solar Panels
Booming
Jobs
High
About
Facilities
High-Tech
Arizona
Since
Industry
Cells
Fuel
Fuel Cells
Produces
Producing
Requires
Paying
Tech
Grown
I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.
J. D. Vance
Me
Anger
People
School
Whatever
Gave
Everyone
Out
High
High School
Almost
Failed
Talents
Until
Around
Handful
Loving
Rescued
Deep
Resentment
Nearly
I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. Watt
School
High
High School
Football
Always
Want
Wanted
Coach
When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.
J. J. Watt
Life
Myself
Home
School
Picture
Down
Relaxing
High
High School
Football
Normal
Normal Life
Just
After
Coaching
Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.
J. J. Watt
Saying
Best
Great
Me
School
Year
Thanks
Every
Way
Great Friends
Kind
High
Trip
High School
Throughout
Take
Friends
Just
Being
Craziness
Them
Loyal
Keeping
Honest
I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
J. Michael Straczynski
Family
Opportunities
Country
Looking
Year
Every
Changed
Months
Jobs
High
All-Around
Born
Pretty
Following
Colleges
High Schools
Economic
Prospects
New
Schools
Around
New Jersey
New Opportunities
Grade
Move
Depending
Place
Breaks
Much
Jersey
Raised
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
J. William Fulbright
Soul
Too
High
Price
Empire
America
Ask any keeper what it's like when there's a recognised No. 1, the competition might not be as high. You're after that competition because it drives you on further.
Jack Butland
You
Competition
Further
Recognised
High
Drives
Like
Because
Any
After
Might
Ask
Keeper
For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
Jack Canfield
Life
Success
Me
Book
Training
School
First
Become
Own
Every
Others
Took
Out
High
Find
Ten
My Own
Ten Years
Area
Could
Studied
Allowed
Self-Esteem
Read
Learned
Got
How
Years
Get
Hands
Hands-On
Graduate
Graduate School
After
Expert
Create
Lives
Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
Jack Dangermond
Work
Competition
Our
Valley
Distracted
High
Able
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Small
Somewhat
High-Tech
Small Town
Instead
Town
Concentrate
Opera
Because
Isolated
Caught
Been
Up
Getting
Being
Soap
Soap Opera
Lane
Grow
Tech
Fast
Fast Lane
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