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For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
Nancy Kress
Book
Publish
Books
Guidelines
Rigid
Must
Detailed
Exactly
Exactly What
Some
Writers
Instance
Genre
Fairly
Readers
Editors
Issue
Lines
Commercial
Expectations
May
Romance
Happen
Explaining
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
Nancy Marchand
You
School
Down
Spent
Could
Had
Written
Written Down
Head
Adventures
Learn
Making
Real
Making Up
Were
Lines
Up
Childhood
Just
Realized
Then
Acting
Your
Acting School
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
Naomie Harris
Smile
You
Energy
Cute
Say
Put
Mainly
Lines
Lot
Up
Child
Expectations
Child Actor
Just
Turn
Certain
Your
Actor
The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
Narendra Modi
Terrorism
Fault
Shifting
Changing
Our
Extremism
Cities
Web
Boundaries
Global
Names
Force
Territories
Lines
Targets
Than
Nations
Groups
Larger
Streets
Societies
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
Nas
Music
Memories
Strong
Big
Bass
Way
Definitely
Rap
Rap Music
Messages
Around
Sounds
Were
Mixed
Lines
Heavy
Reggae
Earliest
Earliest Memories
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
Natasha Trethewey
Writing
Sense
Thinking
Syntax
Intuitive
About
Poem
More
Point
Computer
Part
Putting
Lines
Mathematical
Hand
Get
Being
Rhythm
Sentences
Page
Less
Switch
Actually
Start
I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.
Nathan Chen
Medicine
Those
Entails
Exactly
Something
Along
Know
Sure
Lines
Want
If you find my aggressive and dominating play dirty, then that's your opinion. But I would assume most people want someone who is going to do anything and everything within the lines to win for their team, because I know I would.
Ndamukong Suh
You
People
Win
Aggressive
Assume
Everything
Would
Find
Someone
Dirty
Know
Most
Because
Within
Opinion
Lines
Dominating
Going
Want
Anything
Anything And Everything
Then
Your
Team
Who
Play
That has been everybody's challenge, above the dancing, the singing, the lines: getting into who these characters would be in 2015. Today's Tin Man is heartfelt, but he wouldn't be soft. Today's Dorothy would be sassy.
Ne-Yo
Today
Man
Challenge
Singing
Everybody
Dancing
Characters
Has-Been
Would
Would-Be
Above
He
Been
Lines
Heartfelt
Tin
Getting
Dorothy
Who
Sassy
Soft
I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.
Neil Patrick Harris
Thought
Think
Say
Thought Process
Tricky
Shakespeare
Deliver
Writes
Instead
Because
Within
Felt
Lines
Text
Green
Just
Process
Little
Then
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
Nick Cave
You
Change
Song
Few
Added
Way
Those
Kind
Find
Some
Pretty
More
Write
Takes
Over
Piece
Particularly
Couple
Revealing
Lines
Lot
Very
Get
Gets
Often
Then
Much
Really
Eventually
Things
You have to have a first job to learn how to act, do interviews, pose for photo shoots, and negotiate how you'll say lines with writers. My first network show, 'Cavemen,' just happened to be one that was culturally reviled.
Nick Kroll
You
Job
First
Interviews
Negotiate
Say
Photo
Photo Shoots
Network
Writers
First Job
Learn
How
Lines
Reviled
Shoots
Just
Happened
Act
Show
Pose
Outside of white button-down oord cloth shirts, Trickers brogues, 501s, and Ray-Ban Aviators, the single item of clothing that I have had in my closet consistently since 1982 is a pair of black-and-white checked Vans. They are the lazy man's shoe - perfect for dog walking and security lines at the airport.
Nick Wooster
Man
Dog
Single
White
Consistently
Airport
Security
Perfect
Lazy
Outside
Had
Checked
Since
Lines
Item
Shirts
Walking
Shoe
Closet
Cloth
Clothing
Pair
Growing up and going out to bars in Australia - people do random things; cheesy pick-up lines... you got to laugh. It's sweet. Some people come up with cracker lines, and you really can't be mean to them.
Nicky Whelan
You
People
Random
Some People
Sweet
Laugh
Out
Some
Come
Cheesy
Got
Lines
Up
Australia
Cracker
Going
Mean
Them
Really
Bars
Growing
Growing Up
Things
I find the whole ceremony of marriage a bit like going to work. Putting on a lovely dress and make-up, learning lines, someone doing your hair.
Nicola Walker
Work
Learning
Marriage
Hair
Bit
Find
Dress
Someone
Putting
Like
Doing
Lines
Going
Lovely
Ceremony
Your
Whole
Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.
Nicolas Cage
Opportunity
Few
Down
Say
Out
Favourite
Something
Had
Most
Came
Been
Lines
Improvisation
Scratch
Whether
Moments
Original
Film
Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats.
Niki Tsongas
Enemy
Become
Past
Complex
Locations
Threats
Due
Lines
Front
Front Lines
Thing
One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.
Nina Easton
Government
Failure
Memories
School
Car
Station
Out
High
High School
Vivid
Rationing
Price
Foot
Ideas
Most
Hill
California
Lines
Southern
Southern California
Controls
Lame
Street
Gas
Gas Station
Below
There really are so many lines of work that you can join that don't have to only be design. And that was one that particularly interested me a lot, because the editors could appreciate all the trends, all the designs and all the work of the designers.
Nina Garcia
Work
Me
You
Design
Trends
Only
Join
Could
Particularly
Because
Editors
Lines
Lot
Interested
Really
Many
Designers
Designs
Appreciate
I'm sure I've said some pretty bad pick-up lines.
Noah Baumbach
Bad
Some
Pretty
Sure
Said
Lines
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
Oscar Niemeyer
Me
Man
Angles
Attract
Nor
Lines
Inflexible
Straight
Created
Hard
Right
I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
P. Chidambaram
Silence
Speak
Fault
Duty
Strategy
Every
Society
Our
Unacceptable
Minister
Tactic
Never
Concede
Prime
Prime Minister
Occasion
Readily
Answer
Subject
Lines
Polity
Required
Ills
I try to look at the films as I make them from a distance, in a way. I think of them as kind of pop culture artefacts. I'll often make posters and tag lines as I'm working on them, and not just conceive of them as a story I'm going to tell, but as a whole, a piece - a whole object that exists in the pop culture realm.
Panos Cosmatos
Culture
Try
Think
Films
Distance
Way
Tell
Kind
Posters
Object
Tag
Conceive
Look
Piece
Make
Lines
Exists
Going
Often
Just
Story
Them
Pop
Realm
Working
Pop Culture
Whole
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
Parker Stevenson
Work
Time
Best
Morning
Say
Some
Magical
Mystical
Simply
Lines
Up
Get
Thing
I played soccer in the Alps when I was a kid. There was a blizzard that happened. And little local German kids were out there shoveling lines. Keeping it moving.
Pat McAfee
Local
Kid
Kids
Out
Blizzard
Were
Lines
German
Happened
Little
Soccer
Moving
Keeping
Played
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
Patrick Chappatte
Good
History
Guilt
Good Taste
Sense
Our
Through
Learned
Lines
Taste
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