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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
Haley Joel Osment
Facebook
Entirely
Myspace
Never
Had
Page
Avoid
Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
Hanya Yanagihara
You
Cell Phone
Phone
Immigration
Pay
Pay Attention
Once
Papers
Out
Photo
Tells
Hat
Join
Take
Open
Attention
Ready
Line
Passport
Off
Queue
Officer
Cell
Page
Your
Present
I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
Hanya Yanagihara
People
Thought
Meeting
Kinder
One Thing
Admires
More
Writer
Writers
Generally
Empathetic
Generous
Always
Least
Encounters
Than
Person
Much
Successful
Page
Thing
And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
Harlan Coben
Love
Time
You
Fool
Sometimes
Perception
Before
Everything
Once
Way
Bit
Paragraph
More
Like
Makes
Came
Very
Quite
Often
Just
Just A Little Bit
Different
Little
Little Bit
Page
Your
Twice
Play
Twist
Last
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Harold Bloom
Strength
Poem
Poems
Exclude
Call
Mostly
Any
Page
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
Harold Pinter
Love
Me
Words
Occasionally
Does
Still
Doing
Years
Hit
Page
Last
The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
Harold Stephen Black
Daily
Blank
Blank Page
Conceived
Answer
Ferry
Whilst
Newspaper
Page
One of the problems with 'SNL' is that, if you tried to adlib, the director would put you off camera and off the mic, so only you would know that you ever did it. The director always directed to the script; he wasn't listening to what you were doing. He was calling shots whilst looking at the page.
Harry Shearer
You
Director
Listening
Problems
Looking
One Of The Problems
Would
Tried
Directed
Only
He
Put
Know
Calling
Always
Doing
Were
Camera
Off
Mic
SNL
Did
Whilst
Script
Shots
Page
Ever
What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.
Henry Selick
Dark
Living
Too
Medium
Adds
Something
Tends
Takes
Toward
Tales
Toys
Fairy
Sci-Fi
Fairy Tales
Little
Personally
Fantasy
Really
Realm
Page
Sweetness
Gravitate
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
Hilary Mantel
Me
Writing
Half
Wolf
Think
Took
Along
Hall
Been
Should
Page
Novel
I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long.
Hilton Als
Life
Art
Experience
Life Is Short
Long
Difficult
Think
Examine
Seems
Something
Like
Attracted
Well
Very
Accountable
Short
Which
Page
Moment
Why
Present
Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act.
Holly Hunter
Work
Great
Money
Sometimes
Some
Something
Compromised
Arena
Take
Like
Know
Make
Gotta
Want
Movie
Page
Act
Dough
Actor
Need
It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.
Howard Rheingold
Life
Me
My Life
Important
Changed
Saw
Says
More
Got
How
Than
Get
Hits
Page
Your
Many
Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.
Hubert de Givenchy
Life
Book
Like
Know
Turn
Page
Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
Idris Elba
Me
You
Characters
Between
Like
Dialect
Interaction
Certain
Page
Skills
Certain Things
Special
Moment
Prepare
Now
Things
Two
Need
I want to develop an atmosphere where the selectors, captain, and coach are on the same page because, unless this happens, there will be no turnaround in our cricket.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Will
Cricket
Our
Unless
Atmosphere
Develop
Because
Same
Same Page
Where
Want
Happens
Turnaround
Coach
Page
Captain
I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
Irvin D. Yalom
Me
First
Practice
Reading
Group
Paragraph
Something
Students
Over
Wrote
Because
Were
Years
Textbook
Often
Just
Stories
Happened
Psychotherapy
Page
Theory
Many
Enjoyed
Session
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Irving Penn
Beautiful
Way
House
Halfway
Print
Itself
Just
Page
Thing
In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone
Time
Character
You
Book
Become
Year
Live
Spend
Only
Main
Main Character
Bottom
Name
Involved
Becoming
Years
Five
Author
Person
Forget
Get
Where
Page
Your
Profession
Novel
Two
By The Time
I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
Isabel Allende
Me
Wait
Try
Tell
Only
Week
Read
Print
Go
Intellect
Front
Just
Screen
Story
Then
Page
Whole
Let Go
For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
J. K. Simmons
Time
Good
Me
You
Learning
Words
Rest
Spending
Some
Absorb
Like
Lines
Offer
Script
Page
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
Jack Welch
Health
You
Vision
Care
Country
Everybody
Able
Lead
Economy
Health Care
Got
Bunch
Green
America
Get
Same
Going
Same Page
Where
Order
Page
Regulations
Company
Activities
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
Jackie DeShannon
Great
Me
Happy
Great Deal
Vanity
Vanity Fair
Gives
Fair
Deal
Story
Which
Page
Full
Exposure
Now
Right
Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.
Jacob Weisberg
Words
Old
Dust
Type
Books
Pressed
Drawn
Out
House
Call
Historical
Jackets
Movable
Old Books
Boards
Them
Page
Moment
Filled
Raised
I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.
Jacqueline Woodson
Until
Lot
Get
Rewrite
Story
Rhythm
Page
Right
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
Jacqueline Woodson
Me
People
World
Writer
Put
Observing
Like
Looked
Becoming
Coming
Were
Wanted
Stories
Midst
Page
Who
Consciousness
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