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It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting.
Mark Billingham
Work
Garden
Path
Crime
Joke
Think
Way
Direction
Leads
Along
Know
Until
Audience
Sound
Least
Coming
Were
Surprising
Very
Hit
Get
Expecting
Same
May
Much
Novel
Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.
Mark Burnett
You
Trend
Every
Benchmark
Television
More
Only
Remains
Clearly
Because
Deal
Hit
Survivor
Show
Many
Series
Downward
Things
Watch
I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.
Mark Foster
Song
Try
Pumped
Kicks
Write
Like
Liked
Wrote
Make
Up
Hit
Just
Stop
Wanted
Either
When I was 21, I was in a pretty serious band, and we almost got signed - went to New York, showcased, all that - but didn't end up getting signed, and we broke up. I went back to the drawing board; I really took a hit from that whole experience.
Mark Foster
Experience
Band
Took
Back
Drawing
Broke
Signed
Pretty
Almost
New
Got
End
Up
Hit
York
Getting
New York
Board
Really
Whole
Serious
In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.
Mark Goddard
Today
Time
Space
First
Lost
Trek
Our
Rating
Seinfeld
Had
Audience
Got
Hit
Than
Gets
Bigger
Show
Star
Star Trek
Season
Actually
If you don't like to be hit, you're in the wrong sport.
Mark Hunt
You
Wrong
Like
Sport
Hit
Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?
Mark McGwire
Truth
Me
You
Few
See
Know
Hit
Want
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.
Mark McGwire
Me
More
Only
Very
Hit
Sixteen
Fifty
Milestone
Special
Season
Players
There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
Mark McGwire
Me
Give
Give Me
Pill
Hit
Any
Going
Baseball
Coordination
Player
I'd be saying, 'No, I'm so not a DJ, I'm a producer.' But no matter how much faith you may have in yourself, until you have a hit you can't really run around telling everyone you're a producer.
Mark Ronson
Faith
Saying
You
Yourself
Matter
Everyone
Run
Telling
Until
Around
How
How Much
Hit
May
Much
Producer
Really
The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.
Mark Rutte
Government
Finances
Crisis
Has-Been
Solution
Netherlands
Investment
Make
Been
Debt
Hit
Get
Order
Room
Taxes
Lower
Lower Taxes
As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.
Mark Sanchez
Best
You
Sometimes
Uncle
Down
Say
Potential
Make
Sure
Am
Go
Hit
Get
Just
Want
Break
Use
Full
Avoid
Full Potential
Even
Play
Things
Competitive
Need
Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.
Mark Skousen
Government
Financial
Monthly
Financial Crisis
Crisis
Cost
Could
Federal
Federal Government
Count
Federal Reserve
Failed
Mortgage
Were
Up
Hit
Duped
Afford
American
Payments
Reserve
Keep
Homes
Buying
Millions
You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
Mark Waid
You
Head
Picking
Over
Like
Readers
Up
Hit
Want
Subtlety
Incapable
When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'
Mark Waters
Myself
Sports
Punch
Punch Line
Slipping
Out
Find
Directing
Park
Put
Like
She
Metaphors
Go
Line
Up
Hit
Often
Just
Stand
Actor
Here
I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?
Mark Zupan
Life
You
Hurt
Car
Live
Living
Would
Scared
Pretty
Cross
Pretty Much Anything
Still
Were
Hit
Getting
Anything
Much
Your
Fun
Street
Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
Martin Gore
Music
You
Trial
Trial And Error
Boring
About
Something
Until
Well
Lots
Error
Hit
Just
Experimentation
Really
Works
We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day when we had to make a decision whether we were going to go to the summit or not. It was already getting dark, but we made the call to go and made the summit, but as soon as we got there, this blizzard just hit.
Martin Henderson
Day
Dark
Decision
Made
Few
Summit
Spent
One Day
Had
Soon
Days
Make
Call
Got
Blizzard
Go
Were
Up
Mountain
Hit
Getting
Going
Just
Biggest
Whether
Which
Ben
I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.
Martin Landau
Home
Bat
Run
Would
Could
Take
Like
Felt
Always
Got
Pinch
Hit
Role
Hitter
Decent
Home Run
Believed
Chance
I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run.
Martin Landau
Home
You
Sometimes
Believe
Bench
Bat
Run
See
Like
Because
Sound
Gotten
Been
Hit
Role
Person
Get
Frustrating
Certain
Unimaginative
Home Run
Right
Chance
Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.
Martin McGuinness
Sector
Disabled
Driven
Devastating
Policy
Vulnerable
Austerity
Hit
Bankrupt
Public
Poor
Workers
Working
Communities
Public Sector
Hardest
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
Marvin Minsky
Good
Knowledge
Problem
Vision
Systems
Computer
David
Had
He
Excitement
MIT
His
Lot
Up
Hit
Representation
Moved
Against
The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.
Mary H.K. Choi
Time
You
Age
Book
Year
Living
Everyone
About
Weddings
Writer
Feels
Invited
New
Like
Hit
York
Same
Same Time
New York
Where
Twenty
Thing
The problem in this country is people gravitate toward one genre, and that's what they embrace. I don't understand that. If you hit me with Bell Biv Devoe meets country, well, I like the sound of that concept.
Mat Kearney
Me
You
People
Problem
Country
Meets
Embrace
Toward
Like
Concept
Well
Genre
Understand
Sound
Hit
Bell
Gravitate
I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.
Mat Kearney
Good
Thought
First
Way
Stations
Record
Somehow
Onto
Smash
First One
Hit
Did
Formats
Radio
Radio Stations
Found
Second
Tons
Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.
Mathias Rust
Me
Thought
Had
Imprisonment
Hit
Than
Much
Hard
Harder
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