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Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.
Grace Potter
Song
Single
Beginning
Every
Write
Feel
Like
End
Short
Middle
Movie
Short Story
Story
Set lists are like movies. They need a great beginning, a dynamic shift in the middle, and bang at the end.
Grace Potter
Great
Beginning
Like
Shift
End
Bang
Lists
Middle
Dynamic
Movies
Need
Set
Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.
Graham Joyce
Swimming
On The Contrary
Rather
Tends
Stuff
Most
Genre
Edges
Mixed
Lot
Contrary
Than
Gets
Middle
Fantasy
Reception
A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.
Graham Nelson
Game
Think
Though
Possibilities
Find
Atmosphere
Deliberate
Division
Part
Attic
New
Builds
Continue
New Possibilities
Middle
Rooms
Far
Choice
Means
Neat
Player
Early
I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.
Graham Norton
Papers
London
Retire
Like
Sell
Middle
Want
I do as much outdoor stuff as I can. What I've done is I bought a house in the middle of Hollywood, but I live in the forest. I literally live in an area that looks kind of like where I camped as a kid, but in the middle of Hollywood. It's called Laurel Canyon.
Greg Cipes
Live
Kid
Kind
Laurel
Outdoor
Area
Bought
Stuff
Like
House
Looks
Forest
Done
Middle
Where
Literally
Canyon
Hollywood
Much
The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger's move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person.
Greg Grandin
Key
Richard Nixon
Enormous
Increasingly
President
East
Nixon
More
Only
Kissinger
Dealt
Iran
Than
Person
Sitting
Move
Expensive
Middle
Oil
Wanted
Middle East
Flattered
Richard
Figure
Serious
Reserve
Henry
Early
A new book by 'New York Times' reporter Charlie Savage, 'Power Wars,' suggests that there has been little substantive difference between George W. Bush's administration and Obama's when it comes to national-security policies or the legal justifications used to pursue regime change in the Greater Middle East.
Greg Grandin
Savage
Change
Legal
Book
Power
East
Has-Been
Obama
Administration
Charlie
Pursue
Between
New
New Book
Policies
Greater
George
Been
George W
Times
Reporter
York
New York
Difference
Middle
Substantive
New York Times
Middle East
Regime
Little
Bush
Used
Wars
I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's 'Blue Velvet.'
Greg Mottola
You
Class
Heart
Pet
Brilliant
Everybody
Way
Bit
About
Tend
Except
Feel
Velvet
Like
Supposed
Well
Sort
How
Version
Very
Blue
Done
Gold
Middle
Where
Depicted
Middle Class
Either
Little
Movies
Little Bit
Sentimental
Villains
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.
Gregory Maguire
History
Age
Darkness
Light
Mirror
Too
Ways
Those
Evolution
About
Something
More
Adult
Child
Middle
Middle Ages
Story
Little
Ages
Less
Reason
Many
Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.
Greta Gerwig
Own
Everybody
Opera
Always
Middle
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
First
Beginning
Define
Plot
Characters
Something
End
Middle
Sustain
Interest
Sentence
Novel
Last
Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and the Internet. We call it marrying China's growth with global resources.
Guo Guangchang
Life
Education
Health
Travel
Class
Internet
Focus
Our
Resources
Sectors
Marrying
Global
Call
Going
Middle
Where
Middle Class
Leisure
China
Forward
Growth
Politicians seem desperate to appeal to their respective versions of the so called 'middle class,' unable to empathise with the precariat and eager to dream up fresh and tougher sanctions against society's wounded.
Guy Standing
Class
Desperate
Politicians
Society
Respective
Unable
Dream
Wounded
Seem
Tougher
Fresh
Versions
Up
Middle
So-Called
Middle Class
Against
Sanctions
Appeal
Eager
Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story, and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things. And it took me a while to figure out how he achieved that effect, and one of the ways was to write it in the present tense.
H. W. Brands
Me
History
Revolution
Thomas
Took
Way
Ways
Though
Out
Some
Seemed
Write
He
Taken
Tense
French
Read
French Revolution
How
Years
Years Ago
Effect
Very
Achieved
Middle
Story
While
Figure
Right
Things
Present
Present Tense
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
Ha-Joon Chang
Change
People
Long
Past
Revolution
Think
Enormity
Distances
Telegraph
Way
Tend
Factor
Over
Days
Messages
Looks
Always
Huge
Up
Middle
Happened
In The Past
While
Realize
Transportation
Who
When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.
Hack Wilson
Three
See
Balls
Just
Middle
Swing
The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
Hamilton Jordan
Politics
Battle
People
Building
About
Wings
Both
Both Parties
Support
Parties
Left
American
Intensity
Forgotten
Middle
Far
American Politics
Far Right
Used
Now
Right
Here
I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
Hannah Gadsby
Me
Conversation
Rude
No Idea
Someone
Had
Wrong
Idea
Until
Walked
Middle
Being
Away
One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
Hanya Yanagihara
Changed
Admire
Totally
Entirely
Writers
Hilary
Most
She
Became
Because
Paths
Just
Middle
Different
Novelist
Her
Career
We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.
Harry Reid
Class
Together
Strong
White
White House
Obama
House
Democratic
Majority
America
Senate
Move
Middle
Middle Class
Barack
Barack Obama
Forward
My family was lower middle class, and my parents both worked, so we couldn't take proper vacations. We'd go for three days to Santa Barbara or to the desert, so my first real vacation came was when I was 12, when friends of my parents were taking their kids away. We went to Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park in Arizona and Utah.
Harry Shearer
Family
Class
Three
Parents
First
National
Kids
Proper
Both
Park
Take
Taking
Arizona
Days
Real
Came
Go
Were
Friends
National Park
Middle
Middle Class
Grand
Grand Canyon
Barbara
Canyon
Worked
Lower
Santa
Utah
Desert
Away
Vacation
Vacations
I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.
Harvey Korman
Pilot
Got
Making
Middle
I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.'
Haskell Wexler
Love
War
Hope
Art
Myself
Peace
Just Be
Virginia
Virginia Woolf
Our
Philosophy
Kind
Some
Attack
Academy
Academy Award
Said
Got
Shooting
Any
Just
Middle
Woolf
Script
Might
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Use
Peace And Love
Even
Award
I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.
Helen Thomas
People
Understanding
Background
East
No Interest
Because
Been
Lot
Middle
Middle East
Happened
Interest
I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Time
Change
Money
Focus
Think
Bit
Classes
Rather
More
Time And Money
Than
Contribute
Often
Middle
Should
Less
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