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As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they're not your words: they're someone else's. You're quoting people.
Fiona Barton
You
People
Words
Journalist
Else
Someone
Read
Lots
Quoting
Your
Regularly
Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
Fiona McIntosh
Life
My Life
Young
Think
Bit
Give
Something
Fact
Through
Read
Returned
Because
Up
Walked
Child
Quite
Refused
In Fact
Wardrobe
Little
Little Bit
Fantasy
Then
Teachers
Fully
Actually
Lewis
Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
Fisher Stevens
Sometimes
Before
Days
Know
Read
Because
How
End
Get
Shooting
Going
Unfortunately
Script
Public
Might
Episode
Even
Two
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
Florence King
People
School
Worrying
Out
Jobs
Able
About
Put
Like
Read
Undertaker
Up
Being
Showing
Showing Up
Start
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
Floyd Abrams
Try
Lawyer
Cares
About
Write
Like
Read
Understand
Educated
Issues
Did
Public
Really
I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
Frances McDormand
Books
Never
Develop
Read
Still
Them
Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
Francesca Lia Block
Love
You
Conflict
First
Add
Abandon
Characters
Constraints
Brutally
Write
Make
Read
What You Love
Afraid
Cut
Separate
Your
Files
Suffer
Second
Draft
Save
Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.
Francine Prose
Time
Old
Read
Course
Always
Years
Just
Stop
Four
Started
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.
Francis Collins
Heart
Complicated
Degree
Organ
Universe
Other
Those
Kidney
About
Neurons
Know
Most
Genome
Read
Learned
Does
How
Brain
Lot
Human
Certain
Certain Degree
Billion
Organs
Connections
Each
Each One
Letters
It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.
Francis Collins
Life
Time
You
Healing
Path
Christ
Sick
Spent
Must
Following
He
Read
How
How Much
Been
His
Modelling
Intended
Interesting
Us
Much
Reason
Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.
Francis Crick
Words
Other
Member
Find
Seems
More
Genetic
Along
Message
Fairly
Read
Overlap
In Other Words
Which
Certain
Base
Now
Two
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.
Francis Ford Coppola
Love
Science
About
Inventor
Could
Terrible
Read
Scientist
Scientists
Maths
Wanted
To Love
Used
Grasp
Lives
Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.
Francis Lawrence
You
Down
Adapting
Some
Something
Hours
Read
Around
Going
Whenever
Cuts
Two
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
Francis Lockier
Bible
Book
Others
One Book
Divine
Read
Understand
Understood
Chiefly
Any
Order
Necessary
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Francis W. Newman
Prayer
Bible
School
Old
First
Secret
Books
Immediately
Religious
Habit
Almost
Read
Years
Commenced
Began
Eleven
It's one thing to read about how makeup is applied. It's another thing altogether to watch it being put on.
Francois Nars
One Thing
About
Put
Read
Another
Altogether
Makeup
How
Being
Thing
Watch
Applied
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
Francoise Sagan
Finished
Once
Dreamt
Write
Writer
Read
Accepted
Around
Editors
Being
Sent
Started
Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.
Frank Abagnale
Website
Somebody
Somewhere
Master
Every
Hong Kong
Criminal
Email
Russia
Case
Something
Never
Supposed
Involved
Involving
Read
Kong
Always
Were
Been
Up
Did
Sitting
Beijing
Ends
Company
Found
There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.
Frank Deford
Positive
People
Reading
Enough
Books
Say
Some
Read
Reviews
Huge
Huge Numbers
Get
Them
They Say
Now
Numbers
Defensive guys don't really understand. It's totally different for offense. Defensive guys are convinced they know us but they just don't understand. Quarterbacks have so much that they have to read and adjust to. They have to look at everybody on the defense. It's totally different for the offense.
Frank Gore
Defense
Defensive
Everybody
Adjust
Totally
Guys
Know
Look
Read
Understand
Quarterback
Offense
Just
Different
Us
Much
Really
Convinced
We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.
Frank McCourt
Nothing
Top
Way
Television
Out
Had
Read
Get
Stories
Acted
Lane
Radio
I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.
Frank Miller
Internet
Own
Think
Frame
Everyone
Way
Wildly
Rupert Murdoch
Propaganda
Point
Point Of View
Stuck
Facts
Putting
New
Most
Read
Times
York
New York
Different
New York Times
Them
Newspapers
Forth
View
Interpret
Things
Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults.
Frank Peretti
Book
Sit
Kids
Neither
Adult
Read
Going
If you're going to read a Peretti book, you're going to get a message. But the book is a pretty good read.
Frank Peretti
Good
You
Book
Pretty
Pretty Good
Message
Read
Get
Going
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You
Lift
Read
Impression
Them
Yours
Even
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
Franz Wright
Morning
School
Reading
Before
Nine
Several
Would
Had
Hours
Read
Go
Odyssey
Up
Get
Grade
Iliad
Homer
Four
Started
Fourth
Started Reading
Third
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