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No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration.
Stephen Hough
Home
Gesture
Keys
Waves
Paper
Pen
Strings
Composers
Totally
More
Inspiration
Perfect
Piano
Sound
Were
Debussy
Than
Hands
Front
Chopin
Two
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
Stephen Sondheim
Matter
Approaching
Single
Before
Doubt
Every
Everybody
Project
Paper
Composed
Faces
Blank
Written
New
Piece
Painted
Imagine
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.
Steven Pinker
Learning
Language
Long
Paper
Student
Journal
Development
Between
Major
Wrote
Mathematical
Models
Graduate
Graduate Student
Children
Dots
Connecting
Published
If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.
Summer Sanders
You
Thought
Before
Down
Paper
Dream
Something
Write
Becomes
Goal
Get
Done
May
Actual
When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.
Susan Vreeland
Great
Me
Strong
Nine
Guided
Paper
Magic
Small
Brush
Colors
He
Until
Lily
Great-Grandfather
Mix
His
Hand
Surrounding
Taught
Grandfather
Landscape
Page
Painter
Appeared
Watercolor
I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.
Suzan-Lori Parks
Love
Beautiful
Moon
Paper
Casablanca
Bette
Bette Davis
Davis
Pierce
Welles
Anything
Movies
Peter
Now
Orson Welles
Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
Svetlana Alexievich
Me
Reality
Paper
Tortured
Magnet
Hypnotized
Like
Attracted
Always
Wanted
Capture
I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Politics
Health
Problem
Disagree
Safety
Achieve
Care
Stronger
Nothing
Guess
Paper
Say
Bernie Sanders
Fraught
Net
Temptation
Tempting
Put
ID
Over
Like
Health Care
Safety Net
Issues
Camp
Historically
Etc
Really
Income
Actually
Guaranteed
I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.
Tash Sultana
Paper
Pen
Pocket
Put
Journal
Go
Just
Little
It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
Taylor Phinney
You
People
Every
Once
Paper
About
Know
Read
Who
Cool
Awhile
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Ted Nelson
Sometimes
Walls
Prison
Spring
Every
Others
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Paper
Out
More
Directions
Idea
Like
Because
Than
Wants
Connected
Four
When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.
Terry Bradshaw
Man
Paper
Booth
Out
Would
Color
Make
Roll
Toilet
Toilet Paper
Started
There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case.
Terry Wogan
Life
Time
You
Luck
Right Place
Right Time
Paper
Case
Exams
More
Only
Take
True
Qualifications
Passing
Lot
Than
Depends
Being
Place
Which
Far
Certainly
Right
I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead of time, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants for the first draft.
Tess Gerritsen
Time
Day
Try
First
Pants
Typing
Months
Paper
Flying
Plot
Pens
About
Write
Cheap
Longhand
Always
Yields
Six
Which
Pages
Using
Seat
Four
Draft
It was very hard for me to put my life on paper. It was a very intimate process, very psychological, but at the same time liberating. It was like cleaning the closet, like cleaning the house... It was very refreshing.
Thalia
Life
Time
Me
Cleaning
My Life
Intimate
Liberating
Paper
Put
Like
House
Very
Same
Refreshing
Closet
Same Time
Psychological
Process
Hard
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
Theodore Bikel
World
Bookshelf
Paper
Perceptions
Delivered
Around
Were
Up
Via
Middle
Century
Us
Route
Right
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.
Theodore Dalrymple
Beautiful
Nature
You
Man
Most Beautiful
Old
Thought
Human Nature
Think
Paper
Though
Characters
About
Mention
Could
Blank
Blank Paper
Written
Idea
Implications
Disastrous
Most
Sheet
Cults
Survive
Human
Which
Old One
Mao
Honest
When I was 10, I had a paper route. One year, I delivered my papers through a hurricane. My mother was against the idea, but my dad, who was a sergeant in the Marine Corps, overruled her. I was determined to deliver my papers.
Tim Finchem
Mother
Marine Corps
Year
Corps
Paper
Papers
Hurricane
Determined
Through
Deliver
Delivered
Had
Idea
Against
Who
Sergeant
Dad
Route
Her
Marine
I have a paper, pencil, and ink sketch for a Mickey Mouse cartoon short entitled 'Mickey's Garden' from 1935.
Tim Matheson
Garden
Entitled
Paper
Pencil
Cartoon
Mickey
Mickey Mouse
Mouse
Short
Sketch
Ink
I'm 85 years old. I've been in business since I was a teenager, practically; I was in grade school, and I even had a paper route. I always had a job so I could have money to spend on girls.
Tom Benson
Business
Money
School
Old
Job
Girl
Teenager
Spend
Paper
Could
Had
Since
Practically
Always
Been
Years
Grade
Grade School
Even
Route
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
Tom Hiddleston
Life
War
Learning
World
Remember
First
Year
Young
Every
Extraordinary
Paper
Say
Would
Wear
About
Red
First World
First World War
Does
Always
Were
Loss
Very
Child
Eight
Young Child
Moving
Mean
Asking
Teachers
Suddenly
Found
Flowers
World War
I'm a pretty well-read person. I read my paper every morning.
Tom McCarthy
Morning
Every
Paper
Pretty
Read
Well-Read
Person
'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.
Tom Shales
Game
Win
Wife
Paper
Machines
Hat
Minute
Variation
Beat
Pointless
Tennis
Head
Catching
Knocking
Stunts
Ball
Contestants
Doing
Off
Clock
Cup
Won
Which
Game Show
Show
Washing
Fox
The town I grew up in, there were no musicians to play with; it was just me. The town I grew up in, there was two shops: like, a paper shop that sells confectionery, sweets and stuff, and, like, a farm supplies and a petrol station. That was literally it.
Tom Walker
Me
Musicians
Farm
Paper
Station
Supplies
Stuff
Town
Like
Were
Up
Sells
Shop
Shops
Just
Grew
Literally
Sweets
Petrol
Play
Two
When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it's like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you're signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they're talking about.
Tony Hawk
Buy
You
People
Meeting
Paper
Finances
Signing
No Idea
About
Idea
Like
Pieces
House
Venture
Venture Capital
Talking
How
Lot
Sitting
Want
Swear
Capital
Create
Start
When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.
Tracie Peterson
Mom
Me
Old
Busy
Paper
Pen
Tell
Would
Give
Give Me
Write
Years
Story
Little
Keep
Four
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