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I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.
Idina Menzel
You
Giving
Singing
Those
High
Find
Some
About
Someone
Know
Goosebumps
Known
Makes
Trying
Notes
Really
Unique
The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
Imran Amed
You
Amazing
Matter
Will
About
Most
Most Amazing
Him
Answer
Always
Amazing Thing
Get
Interesting
Notes
Ask
Karl
Even
Thing
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.
Italo Calvino
Energy
Books
Rules
Memoirs
Rate
More
Write
Open
Had
Without
Genuine
How
How Much
Testimonial
Been
Provide
Italy
Trying
Any
Preconceived
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Might
Modest
Notes
Plan
Us
Much
Useful
Less
Novel
Wasted
Things
I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
Jack McBrayer
Success
Me
You
Change
People
Job
Lose
Way
Dare
Would
Tried
About
Never
Part
Like
Accent
How
Sound
Am
Get
Want
Sensitive
Little
Notes
Should
Who
Millions
Thinks
Millions Of People
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that's how I got hooked.
Jacqueline Carey
Great
Back
Hooked
Dreadful
Part
Taking
Like
Looked
Opera
Sort
Because
Got
How
Up
Just
Soap
Soap Opera
Notebook
Notes
Fantasy
Novel
Utterly
Started
Kept
I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.
Jacques Villeneuve
Buy
Music
Good
Song
Listening
Become
Every
Spend
Bit
Collection
About
Songs
Putting
Days
Know
Tracks
Am
Passionate
Which
Little
Notes
Include
Each
Tons
There are only so many chords and notes in the world.
Jake Shears
World
Only
Notes
Many
Chords
I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is worth being in a song. So I tend to collect notes, and I set time aside to go to work and write songs.
Jakob Dylan
Work
Time
Day
Song
Worth
Somebody
Long
Think
Everything
All Day
Carries
Collect
Tend
Write
Writes
Songs
Around
Go
Being
Notes
Aside
Who
Imagine
Set
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
James Horner
Me
Writing
Painting
Broad
Strokes
Composing
About
More
Brushes
Computer
Write
Piano
Colors
Like
Very
Notes
Much
Use
Palette
Desk
If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.
James McAvoy
People
Three
Long
Move On
Organic
Say
Bit
Run
Give
More
Scene
Through
Like
Doing
Go
Up
Quite
Often
Move
Break
Afterwards
Theater
Little
Little Bit
Notes
Cut
Cuts
Then
Really
Next
Page
Pages
Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.
James Salter
Solitude
Made
Bench
Complete
Composition
Park
Absolute
Written
House
Although
Empty
Trains
Sitting
Notes
Even
Things
Need
I think a lot of people, in general, have whatever mechanisms they have in order to go through the day. For me, I do just literally have post-it notes and other little messages to strengthen me on hard days, or just on regular days, to remind me - to remind ourselves - of our dopeness.
Jamila Woods
Day
Me
People
Whatever
Think
Other
Our
Ourselves
General
Through
Remind
Days
Messages
Go
Lot
Just
Order
Literally
Little
Notes
Regular
Hard
Mechanisms
Strengthen
I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!
Jane Levy
You
Thank You
Postcards
Forever
Thank
Them
Notes
Keep
Letters
Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.
Janet Fitch
Character
You
World
Events
Other
Mood
Scene
Emotional
Around
How
Authors
Establish
Notes
Landscape
Use
Help
Describing
Description
Keep
Tone
I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.
Jason Reynolds
Love
Queen
Old
Black
Poet
Reading
Lyrics
Out
Poetry
Through
Instead
Obsession
Most
Fell
Around
Hip-Hop
Came
Years
Eight
Wanted
Literature
Notes
Stands
Reign
Album
I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.
Jason Reynolds
Buy
School
Reading
Would
Rappers
Cassette
Poets
Between
Read
Sort
Go
Subconsciously
Were
Tapes
Store
Notes
Us
Creating
Teaching
Connections
I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'
Jason Ritter
Me
You
Made
Own
Saw
London
Had
He
Knew
Performance
Said
Proud
Am
Doing
Just
After
Notes
Really
Your
Dad
Thing
The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.
Jeff Abbott
Me
Entertainment
Reading
Back
Those
Tell
Compliment
Readers
Greater
Gotten
Them
Notes
Nicest
Received
When I first got signed, I used to literally pick up a pen and pad. Write bars in my notes, even whole songs. Nowadays, I just go off the feeling.
Jeremih
First
Feeling
Nowadays
Pen
Signed
Write
Pick
Songs
Got
Go
Off
Up
Just
Literally
Notes
Pad
Used
Whole
Bars
Even
I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.
Jerry Hunt
Think
Too
Way
Sloppy
Could
Pianist
Never
Had
Written
Learn
Because
Were
Quite
Wanted
Them
Notes
Ever
Play
Right
Career
When people hear I have six kids and 16 grandkids, they think, 'Oh, boy, you must get a lot of stories from them.' I don't. It's not like I'm behind the sofa in the living room taking notes while the grandkids carry on.
Jerry Spinelli
You
People
Living
Think
Kids
Carry
Must
Taking
Like
Boy
Hear
Lot
Get
Six
Behind
Oh
Stories
While
Room
Them
Notes
Grandkids
Living Room
Sofa
I don't have any legato skills; I could never figure out how to roll the notes off.
Joe Bonamassa
Out
Could
Never
How
Off
Roll
Any
Notes
Skills
Figure
If you're always playing the correct notes, there's something wrong - you're not searching; you're not reaching for anything.
Joe Satriani
You
Correct
Something
Wrong
Reaching
Always
Anything
Notes
Searching
Playing
I love classical music, but I hated classical guitar. But I like flamenco, because there was something else there going on. It wasn't just the notes being thrown at you. And there were certain kinds of jazz that I really liked and other kinds that just went right over my head.
Joe Satriani
Love
Music
You
Guitar
Jazz
Other
Else
Hated
Kinds
Classical
Classical Guitar
Classical Music
Something
Something Else
Thrown
Head
Over
Like
Liked
Because
Were
Going
Just
Being
Notes
Really
Certain
Right
Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.
John Buchanan Robinson
Panic
Diminished
Security
Runs
Follows
Restricted
Supply
Accordingly
Suspended
Behind
Short
Gold
Notes
That's what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you're holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they're anything.
John Darnielle
Home
You
Experience
Looking
Reading
Holding
Enjoy
Record
Having
Arrive
Hearing
Anything
Notes
Much
Used
Whole
Bringing
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