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I wrote a book called 'Doll Bones', which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book.
Holly Black
Book
Writing
Made
Down
Bone
Plot
Only
Point
Wrote
Make
Another
Doll
Cow
Place
Which
China
Places
Grinding
Actual
Two
Needed
Creepy
Bones
I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.
Holly Hunter
Me
Money
Think
Too
Beside
See
About
Cost
Seems
Point
Make
How
How Much
How Much Money
Odd
Go
Privy
Want
Movie
Story
Public
Movies
Much
Really
Actor
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
Hooman Majd
Writing
College
Living
Some
More
Point
Write
Writer
Like
Make
Cliche
Always
Sounds
Very
Quickly
Did
Fiction
Wanted
After
Fiction Writing
Interested
Realized
Hard
I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much.
Hope Davis
Life
Too Much
My Life
Too
Analyzing
Point
Much
I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.
Hope Davis
Life
Me
Too Much
Thought
My Life
Young
Too
Analyzing
Spent
Would
Tried
Pretty
Girlfriends
Rather
Point
Talk
Well
Go
Years
Very
Did
Just
Children
Young Children
Much
Therapy
In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor, the holly bush.
Hope Jahren
Thrive
Thorny
Neighbor
Oak
Point
Good-Natured
New
New England
Leaves
Pin
Impression
Tipping
Bush
Holly
England
I was a rapper who was 13 or 14 years old at one point, and it was a dream. I used to see videos of other rappers around the world, and I used to hope that I could be like that one day.
Hopsin
Hope
Day
World
Rapper
Old
Videos
Other
One Day
Dream
Rappers
See
Point
Could
Like
Around
Years
Used
Who
Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.
Howard Fast
Life
Myself
Writing
My Life
Action
Believe
Other
Enriched
Philosophical
Willingly
Unpopular
Wed
Point
Point Of View
Feel
Since
Matched
Causes
Person
Endless
Being
Experiences
Depleted
Which
Little
Meaning
Much
Aspects
View
Series
Found
I once gave a character in a novel my inability to get past the same point in any work of philosophy: that moment when seeing is suddenly occluded and you know you can go no further.
Howard Jacobson
Work
Character
You
Past
Gave
Once
Philosophy
Further
Seeing
Point
Know
Go
Get
Same
Any
Inability
Moment
Novel
Suddenly
Failing to see the point is not a virtue.
Howard Jacobson
Virtue
See
Point
Failing
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
Howard Mumford Jones
Speak
Thought
Honored
Par
William
Emerson
Potent
Excellence
Point
Point Of View
Writer
He
Still
His
Celebration
American
Died
Representative
James
Asked
View
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.
Howard Stringer
Sometimes
Else
Everywhere
Furthest
Small
Point
Small Town
Town
Make
Insular
West
West Coast
Provincial
America
Little
Hollywood
Coast
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
Hu Shih
Wish
Say
Out
Religious
Entirely
Point
Wrong
Chinese
I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.
Hugh Grant
Me
People
Dark
Better
Think
Point
Emotional
Putting
Because
Than
Heavy
Much
Who
Deep
Film
'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.
Hugh Grant
You
Eyes
Worlds
Unlikely
Respectable
Out
Kind
Clash
Guy
Point
Take
Poke
Hill
Does
Mob
Mickey
Blue
Blue Eyes
Maybe
Being
Much
Really
Fun
Englishman
British
The women's movement, from my point of view, was part of the larger sexual revolution that 'Playboy' had played such a large part in. The reality is that the major beneficiaries of the sexual revolution are women.
Hugh Hefner
Women
Reality
Revolution
Beneficiaries
Sexual
Sexual Revolution
Point
Point Of View
Had
Part
Major
Movement
View
Large
Large Part
Larger
Playboy
Played
As an actor, I don't have an agenda. I don't have to prove a point; I am not a bastion of a particular brand of cinema. I am doing what makes me happy.
Huma Qureshi
Me
Happy
Cinema
Point
Particular
Makes
Am
Prove
Doing
Brand
Agenda
Actor
Collaboration between different parts of the world will bring us closer. From a business point of view, it opens up new markets as well.
Huma Qureshi
Business
World
Will
Collaboration
Markets
Point
Point Of View
Between
New
Opens
Well
Parts
Up
Closer
Different
Us
Different Parts
View
Bring
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Iain Banks
Science
Important
Revolution
Has-Been
Point
Since
Most
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Genre
Science Fiction
Always
Been
The Most Important
Fiction
Ever
My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.
Ian MacKaye
God
Time
Me
People
Same Thing
Think
Thinking
Other
Spend
Must
About
Seem
Point
Point Of View
Absurd
Look
Sure
Times
Person
Same
Just
So Much Time
Much
View
Thing
Things
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
Ian Mcewan
Good
You
Writing
Pleasing
Bit
See
Some
Beach
Something
Atonement
Given
Point
Dirty
Like
Involved
How
Test
Historical
Very
Get
Hands
After
Which
Your
Now
Plausible
Things
Here
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
Ian Mckellen
Saying
You
Training
School
Think
Drama
Drama School
Way
Someone
Point
Through
Never
Put
Limited
Understood
Go
Been
Different
Fan
Should
Act
Acting
Theories
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
Ian Mckellen
Life
Death
Saying
Time
Good
You
Better
Too Much
Somebody
Believe
Think
Too
Good Life
No Point
Point
Road
Make
Sure
Always
Doing
Were
End
Closer
Died
Want
Much
Your
Waste
Things
The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
Ian Mckellen
Truth
Truth Is
Give
Point
Point Of View
Industry
American
Working
View
International
Oscars
British
I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
Ian Somerhalder
Time
Aim
Some
Direct
Point
Much
Act
You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
Ian Somerhalder
Time
Great
You
Director
Enough
Enough Time
Spend
Out
Able
Some
Finesse
Directors
Point
Performance
Understands
Lot
Get
Acting
Actor
Set
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