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One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?
Robert Gottlieb
Work
Good
People
Determination
Pure
Mysteries
Dancers
Find
Charm
Perform
Supposedly
Blind
Knowledgeable
How
Ballet
Irresistible
Just
Eternal
Plain
Then
Many
You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.
Robert Gottlieb
Life
Death
You
Woman
Women
Fate
Psychic
Mysteries
Lesson
Approach
Nutshell
Ways
Photographic
Eccentric
Variety
Unresolved
Studies
Study
Combination
Metaphor
Forensics
Unexplained
Hobby
Manifestation
Series
Peculiar
The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.
Robert Vaughn
World
Mysteries
Philosophers
Answers
Same
Theologians
I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.
Ruth Rendell
Book
Mysteries
Sense
Think
Slowly
More
Sort
Any
In-Depth
Barbara
Much
Searching
Vine
Vines
Necessarily
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.
Samuel R. Delany
Book
Mysteries
Begins
Just
Ends
Meant
Function
Things
Number
I just have mysteries in all my books, I think, whether it's a boy investigating or a girl. I have an enduring fascination with mysteries of all kinds.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Girl
Mysteries
Think
Books
Kinds
Investigating
Boy
Just
Enduring
Whether
Fascination
Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries.
Sharon Kay Penman
Women
Reality
Men
Mysteries
Reflect
Options
Did
Many
Need
I only work with people that are mysteries.
Sharon Van Etten
Work
People
Mysteries
Only
You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage.
Sonia Levitin
Love
Great
You
Courage
Mysteries
Picture
Teens
Books
Crisis
Some
Variety
Adult
Picture Books
Historical
Offer
Love Stories
Children
Stories
Notice
Novels
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
Sophie Hannah
Me
Mysteries
Structure
Poetry
Through
Wrote
Verses
Childhood
Rhyming
Connection
I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.
Stephen King
Love
Crime
Mysteries
Ghosts
Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting - that's kind of the basis of 'Neon Future,' and that's why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.
Steve Aoki
Future
Creativity
Mysteries
Our
Our Lives
Those
Kind
Exciting
Ray
Opening
Brain
Up
Grey
Really
Why
Lives
Things
Extending
Basis
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.
Sufjan Stevens
Music
Musicians
Culture
World
Word
Language
Mysteries
Think
Folk
Folk Music
Entire
Like
Understand
Answer
Becomes
Itself
Trying
Often
Just
Movement
Process
Packaged
Asked
Grunge
At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.
Sun Yat-sen
Time
Nature
Knowledge
Mother
Mysteries
First
Ocean
Fathom
Saw
Hawaiian
Vastness
First Time
Islands
Accompanied
West
Wonder
Acquire
Eager
Thirteen
One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.
Timothy Noah
Job
Mysteries
Nation
United Nations
Over
Occupation
Nonetheless
Iraq
America
Nations
Refuses
Enduring
Little
Turn
Peacekeeping
United
Why
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
Val McDermid
Time
Bible
School
Mysteries
Second-Hand
Books
Later
Spent
Libraries
Only
Developed
House
Were
Discovered
Sales
Lot
Jumble
Taste
Holidays
Then
Grandparents
Copy
Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
Wendelin Van Draanen
Creative
People
Writing
Mysteries
Young
More
Write
Part
Motivation
Discovering
End
Up
Loved
Young People
Fun
Even
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Things
I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.
Heather O'Rourke
Ride
Mysteries
Alfred Hitchcock
Drew
Like
Nancy
Read
Motorbike
Hitchcock
Swim
I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, 'Are aliens real?' and 'Why won't girls talk to me?'
Alex Hirsch
Great
Me
Alien
Girl
Mysteries
Spent
Like
Talk
Real
Years
Childhood
Many
Why
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.
Umberto Eco
Creativity
Light
Mysteries
Style
Enjoy
Aim
Books
Entertain
Follow
Beach
Only
Instead
Concerned
Read
Readers
Because
Exists
Repetitive
Romance
Fiction
Successful
Certainly
Novels
Whose
Second-Class
I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?
Richard Dawkins
You
Yourself
World
Mysteries
Big
Fall
Think
Thinking
Universe
Enough
Everything
I Think
Find
See
About
Come
Around
Understand
Does
Got
Big Enough
Brain
Lot
Quite
Quite A Lot
Where
Mean
Naturally
Planted
Deep
Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.
Tim O'Brien
Science
Obligation
World
Mysteries
Live
Our
Writers
Does
Math
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Stories
Explanations
Enhance
Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.
Alex Hirsch
Mysteries
First
Characters
Magic
About
Falls
Foremost
Show
Gravity
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