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I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.
Meg Wolitzer
Sometimes
Kind
Feel
Like
Ideas
Ready
Go
Up
Then
Pop
Novel
Bingo
Numbers
I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.
Megan McCafferty
Long
Down
Relevant
Out
Ripping
Mission
Ideas
Very
Articles
Where
Process
Notebook
Newspaper
I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.
Megan Mullally
Long
Band
Typed
Email
Name
Ideas
Up
Different
Sent
Started
For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.
Meghan Daum
Me
Writing
About
Ideas
Reader
Up
Very
Offering
Essays
Processing
Them
Much
Cooked
Fully
I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.
Melora Hardin
Work
Love
Home
Sometimes
Sit
Down
Add
Lyric
Lyrical
Lyrics
Way
Melodic
Melody
Kind
Some
Pretty
Recorder
Write
Idea
Combined
Like
Ideas
Concept
Sing
Go
Go Home
Tape
Tape Recorder
Get
Just
Then
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren
Prevail
Progress
Revolution
Manners
Characters
Has-Been
Rapid
Animated
Almost
Noblest
New
Blending
Ideas
Alteration
Principles
Been
Train
American
Which
American Revolution
Nearly
Universally
I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.
Merritt Wever
People
Wish
Feminism
Think
Evolving
Embrace
Scary
Term
Ideas
Concept
Umbrella
Conflicting
Should
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'
Meshell Ndegeocello
Complicated
Other
Relative
Ideas
Normal
Personal
Any
I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
Michael Arndt
Time
One Time
Crowded
Write
Head
Ideas
Also
However
Get
Any
Story
Little
Scripts
Prefer
Two
I think women are much more open to new ideas but approach a line more from a more personal and skeptical place - you need to seduce them into your clothes, whereas most men just like to be told what they should be wearing. Women are a bit like cats and men like dogs in that respect when it comes to clothes.
Michael Bastian
You
Respect
Women
Cats
Men
Clothes
Think
Approach
Bit
Seduce
Wearing
More
Open
New
Like
Ideas
Most
New Ideas
Dogs
Line
Women Are
Personal
Just
Whereas
Place
Skeptical
Them
Much
Should
Your
Need
Just being out in the world gives me ideas.
Michael Bastian
Me
World
Out
Gives
Ideas
Just
Being
Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.
Michael Baumgartner
Political Campaign
Political
Think
Meeting
Out
Running
Folks
About
Beat
Underdog
Ideas
Talking
Opponent
Real
Insurgent
Lot
Campaign
Privilege
America
Going
Against
Really
Your
Fun
Many
Washington
I think a lot of hedge funds get their trades from Wall Street and get their ideas from Wall Street. And I just like to find my own ideas. I'm reading a lot; I read a lot of news. I'm addicted to it. I basically - I follow my nose on news stories.
Michael Burry
News
Reading
Own
Think
Addicted
Find
Follow
My Own
Like
Ideas
Read
Trades
Lot
Wall
Wall Street
Get
Just
Nose
Stories
Hedge
Street
Funds
Basically
Ideas are the easy part. I spend a lot of time batting them away, trying to keep them from distracting me from what I actually have to focus on and finish. A lot of times, they are a siren temptress beckoning me with the promise of a much shorter, simpler, more slender novel over the horizon, but of course that's very dangerous.
Michael Chabon
Time
Me
Dangerous
Focus
Slender
Spend
Batting
Promise
Distracting
Easy
Horizon
Finish
More
Simpler
Part
Over
Ideas
Course
Lot
Very
Siren
Times
Trying
Them
Much
Novel
Keep
Away
Actually
Movies are about people; there're not about ideas. It's like great novels. Great novels are not about ideas. There's never been a great novel about ideas.
Michael Cimino
Great
People
About
Never
Like
Ideas
Been
Movies
Novel
Novels
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
Michael Crichton
Day
Every Day
Live
Every
Virtual
Our
Defined
Environments
Ideas
I am very glad as well that it is a presidency built on a campaign that emphasized ideas. I hope it will be a presidency that will enable everybody to be part of and proud of.
Michael D. Higgins
Hope
Will
Presidency
Everybody
Glad
Part
Emphasized
Ideas
Well
Enable
Proud
Built
Am
Campaign
Very
Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat customers, and successfully building your team is a feeling that can't be matched.
Michael Gerber
Life
Great
Business
Care
Feeling
Building
Become
Own
Taking
New
Come
Ideas
Matched
Repeat
Them
Customers
Successfully
Your
Team
Growing
Watching
I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.
Michael Heizer
Work
Art
Myself
World
Looking
Frame
Books
Mine
About
Similar
New
Academic
Ideas
Educated
Provide
Reference
Historical
Art World
York
New York
Europe
Usual
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.
Michael Hirst
Character
People
Writing
Nothing
Other
Way
Recoil
TV
About
Could
Absolutely
Instinct
Ideas
Talking
Dumber
Than
Script
Should
Film
Based
I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It's a reasonable assumption, but it's wrong. In five and a half years in politics up north, no one really bothered to criticize my ideas, such as they were. It was never my message that was the issue. It was always the messenger.
Michael Ignatieff
Politics
Faith
Good
Made
Argument
Half
Thinking
Assumption
Criticize
Bothered
Never
No-One
Wrong
Ideas
Half Years
Message
Messenger
Always
Issue
Were
Years
Hearing
Up
Five
North
Get
Really
Reasonable
Good Faith
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
Michael Ignatieff
Time
Own
Politician
Idea
Come
Ideas
Policies
Sake
Question
Intellectual
May
Whether
Interest
Interested
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.
Michael Leunig
Good
Great
Beginning
Good Ideas
Similar
Absurd
Ideas
Look
Advocate
Einstein
View
Notion
Expressed
All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.
Michael Moritz
You
People
Smart
Made
Mistakes
Sift
Out
Pretend
Had
Investors
Implausible
Smart People
Perhaps
Ideas
Unworthy
Been
Lots
Very
Listen
Moment
Companies
Need
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
Michael Morpurgo
You
Down
Silly
Seem
Trivial
Write
Ideas
Always
However
Times
Notebook
Might
Your
Keep
You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.
Michael Nesmith
You
Internet
Back
Way
Data
Ideas
Understand
Access
Years
Going
Quite
Forth
Flow
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