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I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.
John Banville
Love
Business
Book
Writing
Feeling
Wish
Say
Intricate
Plot
Possible
Characters
Run
Would
See
Could
Writer
Take
Over
Suppose
Because
Frequently
How
His
Exist
Meticulous
Technical
Away
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
John Berryman
Business
Will
Extremely
Worst
Possible
Point
He
Him
Artist
Ordeal
Which
Who
Lucky
Actually
Presented
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
John Boyd Orr
Great
Religion
Power
Increase
State
Approval
Possible
Has-Been
Empires
Powers
Force
Arms
Policy
Territory
Always
Been
Get
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
John Burns
Work
Courage
Political
Men
Immediately
Possible
Moral
Administrative
Moral Courage
Ability
Only
Beyond
Because
Advocate
Opposition
Who
Received
Number
I really want as many people as possible to relate to something, without compromising or dumbing down.
John Cameron Mitchell
People
Down
Relate
Possible
Something
Compromising
Without
Want
Really
Many
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
John Clayton
God
Best
Exaggeration
Son
Complete
Worst
Possible
Fabrication
Divine
Original
Portrait
Jesus
Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?
John Cleese
Physics
Believe
Possible
Never
Bag
Weird
Weird Things
Days
Sci-Fi
Quantum
Quantum Physics
Been
Lot
Really
Why
Why Not
Things
If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.
John Corey Whaley
Work
Home
Pressure
Few
Possible
Distractions
Most
Comfortable
Get
Done
Situations
Prefer
Really
Chair
Adapt
In 1967, I had formed a collaboration with Hermann Eggerer, then of Muenchen, and together, we solved the problem of the 'asymmetric methyl group' and applied the solution in some of the many ways that have proved possible.
John Cornforth
Together
Problem
Group
Collaboration
Ways
Possible
Solution
Solved
Some
Had
Proved
Formed
Then
Many
Applied
By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel manner, complementary to the other approaches which have developed over the same period.
John Cornforth
Nature
Become
Other
Approaches
Complementary
Possible
Physical
Investigate
Developed
Thus
Over
Combining
Period
Chemical
Same
Which
Manner
Novel
Biochemical
Techniques
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
John Crowe Ransom
Art
Religion
Other
Possible
Logic
Havoc
Faculties
Allowances
Until
Make
Terrible
Quiet
Manage
Keep
Plays
My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.
John Darnielle
Love
Films
Faulkner
Favorite
Favorite Movies
Possible
See
Horror
Horror Films
Most
Wanted
Movies
Painful
Things
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
John Desmond Bernal
Science
Long
Characteristic
Possible
Proof
Seized
Advance
Scientist
Any
Essence
Often
Explanations
Full
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is a great leader, possesses the highest possible character, and also happens to be a Browns fan.
John Dorsey
Great
Character
Leader
State
Secretary
Possesses
Possible
Great Leader
Browns
Highest
Also
Condoleezza
Condoleezza Rice
Fan
Happens
Former
Rice
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
John Drinkwater
Best
Experience
Poet
Way
Says
Possible
Perfect
He
Felt
Token
Expression
We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.
John Eaton
Life
Broad
Range
Possible
Kind
Because
Itself
Need
This is America, where everything is still possible.
John Edwards
Everything
Possible
Still
America
Where
We do have every interest in maintaining the friendliest possible relations with Mexicans from all legitimate political walks of life.
John Gavin
Life
Political
Walks
Every
Relations
Possible
Maintaining
Mexicans
Legitimate
Interest
It's possible for an editor to break down a dream, if you like, into its components and being able to shoot the wide shots in sunshine, when the weather was at its best and you know, we would get sort of almost a 3D effect sometimes if you chose the right time of day to shoot the thing.
John Glen
Time
Best
Day
You
Sunshine
Sometimes
Weather
Down
Right Time
Possible
Dream
Would
Components
Able
Almost
Like
Know
Sort
Editor
Effect
Get
Shoot
Being
Break
Shots
Chose
Right
Thing
Wide
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.
John Green
Angry
Internet
Become
Think
Birds
Books
Possible
More
Attention
Idea
Attention Spans
Days
Like
Talk
Make
Terrible
Lot
Short
Spans
Much
Publishing
Bells
Bells And Whistles
Need
I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.
John Grogan
Own
Input
Mini
Minimal
Possible
Take
Environment
Self-Contained
Make
Lot
Trying
Little
Land
Satisfaction
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
John Hodgman
Just Be
Research
Possible
Insofar
Facts
Also
Does
Fake
Just
Haphazard
Interesting
Require
Creating
Measure
Need
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
John Hodgman
History
Creative
People
Writing
Money
Perspective
Nurture
Before
Ways
Possible
Find
About
More
More People
Talented
Talented People
Readers
Readership
Access
Were
Years
Years Ago
Lot
Very
Than
Means
Less
Less Money
Twenty
Ever
That would be a huge honor, if I ever were to become the No. 1 American. It's something that I've always wanted to, you know, achieve that. For me, if were to happen, it'd be great. I'd try to hold onto that spot as long as possible, but I know there'd be a lot of people nipping at my heels to try to get to that No. 1 spot.
John Isner
Great
Me
You
People
Try
Achieve
Honor
Long
Become
Possible
Would
Would-Be
Something
Onto
Know
Spot
Always
Were
Lot
Huge
Get
American
Wanted
Happen
Hold
Heels
Ever
If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s.
John Knoll
You
Army
Seen
Difficult
Soldiers
Scale
Possible
More
Computer
Cheaper
Since
Pictures
Make
Real
Very
Shoot
Expensive
Where
Movie
Which
Epic
Really
Graphics
Thing
Techniques
Difficult Thing
Need
The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.
John Lasseter
People
Made
Big
Mountains
Down
Nice
Every
Interstate
Everything
Valleys
System
Possible
Point
Highway
Knocked
Town
Built
Get
Flat
Filled
Fast
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