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I think 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is a good example of a film where you have to juggle a whole lot of information to follow that story, and even if you haven't read the book, it seems to go pretty well. And that is a film where the characters didn't meet until 74 minutes into the film, not on page 17.
Niels Arden Oplev
Good
You
Book
Girl
Example
Think
Meet
Characters
Follow
Minutes
Pretty
Seems
Until
Well
Read
Juggle
Go
Lot
Tattoo
Where
Information
Story
Page
Whole
Even
Good Example
Film
Dragon
It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.
Nikki Grimes
Time
Me
Words
Power
Seemed
Could
Had
Another
Another Time
Spread
Just
Place
Across
Page
Transport
The great thing about making an ensemble show is it becomes modular. It might work on the page to cut from one scene to another, but on the screen, it's more powerful to take that second scene and move it first or move it later.
Noah Hawley
Work
Great
First
Later
Ensemble
About
More
Scene
Take
Powerful
Great Thing
Another
Becomes
Making
Move
Screen
Might
Cut
Page
Show
Thing
Second
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
Norman MacCaig
Good
Eyes
Better
Poet
Thinking
Way
Bad
Boring
Some
Poets
He
Name
Particular
Read
Dry
Because
Reads
Off
Very
Far
Page
Your
Speakers
Whom
Start
I am a little old fashioned, and I love to have my scripts printed out. There is something magical about feeling the paper, making notes and page marks.
Olga Fonda
Love
Old
Feeling
Paper
Marks
Out
About
Magical
Something
Printed
Making
Am
Little
Scripts
Notes
Page
Old-Fashioned
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
Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person's reputation make the front page just as quickly - and many would say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.
Parker Conrad
News
Reputation
Approach
Say
Would
Criticized
More
Make
Frequently
Quickly
Person
Heartless
Front
Front Page
Just
Stories
Page
Organizations
Many
Even
Enhance
Media
Damaging
I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
Pat Mastelotto
Think
Record
More
Mister
Were
Than
Interested
Richard
Page
Basically
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
Patricia Reilly Giff
Heart
Writing
Every
Seven
Over
Revision
Times
Done
Eight
Page
This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.
Paulo Coelho
You
Facebook
People
World
Twitter
Bit
Easy
See
Over
Idealistic
Talk
How
Sound
Dialogue
Go
Blog
Account
May
Establish
Different
Little
Little Bit
Page
Different People
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
Paul von Hindenburg
War
Great
Book
Recording
Unknown
Ourselves
Out
Has-Been
Ripped
Russian
Know
Great War
Been
Losses
Account
Five
Eight
Page
Figures
Millions
To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of course, I work on the page I am on until I am happy with it. I might even say that I try to state the landscape.
Per Petterson
Work
Truth
You
Happy
Book
Try
Finished
First
State
Say
Tell
Most
Until
Course
Edit
Am
Times
Might
Much
Landscape
Page
Even
Draft
In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities connected to Texaco was brought forward at their stockholder meeting by Amazon Watch, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the Amazon.
Peter Coyote
Problems
Meeting
Brought
Bought
Document
Protecting
Concerning
Sale
Amazon
Listing
Page
Dedicated
Forward
Connected
Watch
As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.
Peter Cullen
Few
Young
Drama
Easier
Characters
Visual
Would
Would-Be
Construct
Voice
Voices
Could
Written
Invited
Department
Quite
Young Actor
Different
Different Characters
Them
Page
Radio
Found
Actor
Presence
With the '39 Clues,' we were making history jump out of the page for the readers, so they don't know they're learning. The kids can't put the books down - it's so exciting.
Peter Lerangis
History
Learning
Down
Books
Kids
Out
Put
Exciting
Know
Readers
Making
Were
Jump
Clues
Page
For those of you who still believe in the Easter Bunny and that the letters that appear in your local newspaper come from concerned citizens who really care, I've got troubling news. At least in politics, most of the letters that get published on the letters-to-the-editor page originate in the campaign headquarters of the candidates.
Peter Navarro
Politics
News
You
Care
Believe
Local
Those
Easter
Citizens
Troubling
Headquarters
Come
Most
Concerned
Got
Least
Still
Campaign
Bunny
Get
Candidates
Newspaper
Really
Page
Your
Who
Appear
Originate
Letters
Published
My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.
Phil Foglio
Character
Fight
First
Few
Publish
Every
Only
Had
No-One
Liked
Hand
Did
Wanted
Stories
Story
Page
Requirement
Explosion
Naturally
Keep
We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more.
Phil Foglio
Time
Out
Some
About
More
Layout
Taking
Talking
Issue
Discuss
Trying
Happen
Happens
Story
Notes
Then
Should
Page
Figure
Who
Showing
Whole
Each
Rough
Start
There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give writers a first draft or a starter kit, so it could enable people to be more prolific in their writing.
Philip M. Parker
You
People
Writing
First
Stumble
Algorithm
Prolific
Give
More
Kit
Could
Blank
Blank Page
Writers
Enable
Lot
Want
Page
Who
Draft
Starter
Imagine
I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth.
Prabal Gurung
You
Yourself
See
Magazine
Takes
Like
Know
Talking
Self-Worth
Lot
Anyone
Confirm
Turn
Page
Your
My earliest memory is trying to read Beatrix Potter, and the words were literally jumping off the page.
Princess Beatrice of York
Memory
Words
Potter
Read
Were
Off
Jumping
Trying
Literally
Page
Earliest
You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
R. A. Salvatore
Alone
Me
You
Book
Chapter
People
Will
Books
Way
No Idea
Given
Write
Idea
Read
Makes
Understand
Same
Often
Happen
Story
While
Them
Next
Page
Fun
Many
I'm so happy I married a fellow Catholic because I think that marriage is tough enough - that's one area that's just not something we argue about. There's no contention about it because we're both on the same page.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Happy
Marriage
Tough
Think
Enough
One Area
Married
About
Something
Both
Area
Argue
Fellow
Catholic
Because
Contention
Same
Same Page
Just
Page
Social media forces girls to bear witness to painful realities of relationship that were previously hidden from view. It is a new kind of TMI, or 'too much information': publicly posted photographs of an outing or party you did not attend, or a personal web page like Formspring, can send a girl into paroxysms of anxiety and grief.
Rachel Simmons
Relationship
You
Grief
Anxiety
Witness
Social Media
Too Much
Girl
Party
Too
Hidden
Kind
Photographs
Posted
Outing
Web
Bear
Attend
New
Like
Forces
New Kind
Were
Did
Personal
Send
Information
Realities
Social
Much
Page
View
Painful
Media
Publicly
I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.
Raina Telgemeier
Work
Me
Long
Before
Complete
Project
Draw
Out
Gives
Takes
Know
Sort
How
Hand
Page
Thing
The industry has a standard way of judging actors: they do ten films, they get X price, and they get this number of awards, seen at page three parties and all that - that is how they measure success. I don't do it like that.
Ram Gopal Varma
Success
Three
Seen
Films
Way
Ten
Price
Like
Parties
Industry
Judging
How
Get
Page
Measure
Standard
Awards
Actor
Number
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