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'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film. Henry Selick

Work Book Better Thought Big Action Live Sold Neil Would Animated Never Conceived Always Big Fan Lot Wanted Fan Fan Base Really Live Action Base Originally Film

Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population. Ilan Stavans

Women Communicate Language Later Considered Eastern Eastern Europe Could Write Writers Longer Masses Years Yiddish Children Order Hebrew Century Realized Europe Illiterate Population Originally Needed

On 'Sid & Nancy,' it was originally this atonal kind of beat that you hear in the verses, like an atonal dance track. Isom Innis

You Dance Kind Beat Like Nancy Track Hear Verses Originally

I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.' Jack Reynor

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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them. Jackie Cooper

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I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know. James Lipton

I auditioned for a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea' called 'The Ugly Duckling,' and I was cast as the King, starting a pattern of being cast in roles originally intended for men. I went to the first rehearsal, and I didn't get any laughs, and I choked and I quit. I walked away from it and joined the tennis team. Jane Lynch

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I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects. Jason Wu

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. Jean Cocteau

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought. Jeff Greenfield

Myself Thought College Mysteries Case Wrote Obvious Came Than After Electoral Electoral College Less Novel Originally Away Believing

We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime. Jennifer Love Hewitt

Project TV Brought Lifetime Developed Along Partners Became Client Manager List Movie Then Produced Originally

In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week. Jesse Ventura

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When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school. Jidenna

There was originally no plan in place for me to become WWE champion. It felt like I became the No. 1 contender out of nowhere. I call what I did forcing the results. I wasn't happy with my position. I was putting in the work, but I wasn't getting the results. I was going to force the result no matter what the cost. Jinder Mahal

Work Me Happy Champion Result Matter Forcing Become Out Cost Results Putting Like Force Call Contender Became Felt WWE Did Getting Going Place Plan Originally Nowhere Position

When I originally debuted in 2011, I was on 'SmackDown.' At the time, they were separate from 'RAW,' so I feel at home on 'SmackDown.' Jinder Mahal

Time Home Raw Feel Were Separate Originally

My first album, 'Englaborn,' was based on music originally written for the theatre. My solo albums, like 'IBM 1401, a User's Manual' and 'Fordlandia,' have also had narratives attached to them. Johann Johannsson

Music Theatre First Solo Attached Had Written Like Also Narratives Them Manual User Originally Based Album Albums

For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren't specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even - that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes. John Cho

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It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects. John Gurdon

Health Research Types Pleasing Out See Purely Clear Prospects Genetic Particularly Identity How Testing Cell Human Different Turned Human Health Body Originally Basic Basic Research

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education. John Knowles

Education You Business Mother Father Virginia Both New Massachusetts New England Go However Were West West Virginia Wanted Place Them Really Meant Coal England Dad Originally

Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not. John Leeson

Hair Think Martin Something Had Part Longer Know Originally Played

I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia. Karan Singh Grover

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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me. Kate Beckinsale

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