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There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
Morgan Freeman
Learning
Complicated
Nothing
More
Costume
Mystery
Putting
Lines
Than
To me, Alan Turing was a mystery - it was sort of like something I needed to unravel. And he was also obsessed with puzzles. So I wanted to make the movie like a mystery, like a puzzle that you're piecing together.
Morten Tyldum
Me
You
Together
Unravel
Something
Mystery
He
Puzzle
Obsessed
Puzzles
Like
Also
Make
Sort
Movie
Wanted
Alan
Needed
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
Muriel Rukeyser
Women
Pride
Singing
Mystery
Clear
Hear
Offering
Lives
Don't just be a mystery to your kids. You need your kids to know you and know they can call you whenever they need you.
Mustard
You
Just Be
Kids
Mystery
Know
Call
Just
Whenever
Your
Need
If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
Nancy Kress
You
Book
Writing
Better
Drama
Speeds
Hooks
Rapidly
Vital
Thriller
Mystery
Tension
Along
Genres
Reader
Readers
Western
Quick
Pacing
Moving
Creates
Certain
Keep
Things
'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for.
Nic Pizzolatto
Work
Rich
Resonant
Characterization
Guise
Details
Detective
Layered
Mystery
True
True Detective
Genre
Shoot
Forms
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.
Nick Davies
God
First
Bizarre
Seem
Mystery
Simply
Encountered
Acquaintance
To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
Nick Tosches
Music
Me
You
Song
Dance
Darker
Some
About
Something
More
Mystery
Write
Ideal
Like
Greater
Always
Up
Reflects
Listen
Represents
I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
Nick Tosches
Hope
Freedom
Experience
Complete
Complete Freedom
Would
Mystery
Write
Had
Wonder
Get
Often
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
Nicole Krauss
Book
Writing
Mystery
He
He Or She
She
Reader
Reads
Inevitably
Author
Going
Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal.
Nikos Kazantzakis
God
Man
Christ
Half
Every
Spirit
Both
Mystery
He
Simply
Particular
Flesh
Why
Universal
Creed
Every Man
We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.
Nina Blackwood
Together
Mystery
Tour
Put
Rock
Tangible
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Product
Things
For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.
Nina Garcia
Fashion
People
Internet
Thought
Become
Everyone
Collaborations
About
More
Mystery
Glamorous
Knew
Like
Years
Target
Very
Shops
So Many Years
Interest
Available
Little
Created
Profession
Many
Now
Designer
I wanted to create a toolkit which I would have wanted as an entrepreneur to use these principles of psychology in product design. Some startups totally forget the trigger. In some, the action is too complicated. Others don't have a variable reward, which maintains mystery.
Nir Eyal
Complicated
Entrepreneur
Reward
Action
Design
Too
Startups
Others
Would
Trigger
Some
Totally
Variable
Mystery
Principles
Forget
Wanted
Psychology
Which
Create
Product
Use
I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.
Noel Gallagher
Today
People
World
Too Much
Think
Too
Wearing
Gel
Magic
Mystery
Colour
Know
Anymore
Information
Much
Shower
Using
Socks
Need
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
Otto Penzler
Before
Interview
Hopes
Inside
Something
Mystery
Writer
Head
Know
Learn
Read
Hear
Get
It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
Otto Penzler
Age
World
Pure
Locked
Detective
Detective Story
Mystery
Between
Became
Ultimate
Golden
Golden Age
Form
Story
Which
Room
Really
Wars
Popular
Two
World Wars
A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
Otto Penzler
Time
You
Mysteries
Pay
Pay Attention
Every
Think
Other
Setup
See
Seeing
Something
Thrillers
Tend
Mystery
Take
Attention
Along
Readers
Lot
Modern
Move
Happening
Story
Prefer
Really
Page
To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
Otto Penzler
Day
Single
Out
Mystery
Never
Figured
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Otto Weininger
Genius
Chaos
Mystery
Conquering
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
Patrick Modiano
Me
Try
Find
More
Remain
Mysterious
Mystery
Obscure
None
Interest
Even
Things
Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.
Paul Di Filippo
Thomas
Postmodern
Thriller
Various
Mystery
Foot
He
New
Genre
Surely
Eras
Historical
Baptism
Inaugurated
Published
Present
Received
Set
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.
Paul Harding
You
Experience
World
Will
Once
Out
All The Difference
Find
About
Mysterious
Mystery
Write
Between
Conceit
Cliche
Reader
Opinion
Stylistic
Prove
Truly
Precisely
Human
Difference
Human Experience
Your
Figures
Received
Messi is as famous as any footballer has ever been, and yet, when it comes down to it, we don't know much about him. I read that he is a family man and likes to walk his dogs, but beyond that, he's a mystery, really. I like that.
Paul Scholes
Family
Man
Walk
Down
About
Mystery
He
Footballer
Like
Beyond
Know
Likes
Him
Read
Messi
Dogs
Been
His
Family Man
Any
Famous
Much
Really
Ever
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
Paula Cole
Music
Freedom
Me
You
Age
Yourself
Somewhere
Ocean
Young
Jazz
Hungry
Wearing
Wings
Mystery
Curious
Going
Young Age
Where
Moment
Express
Express Yourself
In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
Paulo Coelho
Respect
Writing
Creation
Side
Mystery
Involved
Feminine
Apply
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