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All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.
Alan Kay
Together
Problem
World
Agriculture
Invent
Gathering
Back
Way
Hunting
Would
Find
Something
Could
Put
Prosper
Like
Years
Years Ago
Cultures
Worked
Businesses
Companies
Deep
If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
Alan King
Great
You
Humor
Think
About
Someone
Something
Expense
Stop
Nearly
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
Alan Lightman
World
Will
Sit
Down
Musical
Something
Wrestling
Piano
Emotionally
Am
Still
Move
Just
Want
Play
Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.
Alan Menken
People
Will
Immediately
Musicals
Something
Attach
Feel
Most
Concept
Make
Than
Bigger
Themselves
Successful
Connected
Need
Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.
Alan Menken
Work
Best
Me
Fight
Somebody
Best Work
Something
Direction
Go
Normally
Trying
Often
Want
Stretch
I'll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my gut when something works for me, and I'll fight for it, but I'm a very easy re-writer.
Alan Menken
Work
Me
Fight
Collaborator
Easy
Gut
Something
Know
Reaction
Always
Very
Room
Works
Basis
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.
Alan Moore
Experience
Few
Own
Control
Speed
Back
Complete
Frames
Out
Per
Echo
Seems
Something
Through
Check
Piece
Read
Reader
Audience
Comics
Dialogue
Being
Whereas
Pace
Pages
Flip
Film
Second
Dragged
I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.
Alan Mulally
People
World
Our
Our World
Something
Talented
Like
Talented People
Around
Lot
Really
Working
All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.
Alan Mulally
Great
People
Great Things
Ourselves
Something
Touching
Know
Doing
Lot
Than
Want
Bigger
Us
Things
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
Alan Parsons
Honor
Power
Related
Something
Directly
Had
Instead
Concept
Robotics
Up
Ended
Being
Asimov
Speaking
Album
I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.
Alan Patricof
Responsibility
Think
Corporate
Something
Becoming
Front
Center
Social
Social Responsibility
I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
Alan Shearer
Life
Great
Me
Enjoy
Inside
Great Life
Rush
Something
Adrenaline
Football
Miss
Got
Chewing
Really
I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They're wrapped, and from Earth all we can do is look at the boxes to see whether they're light or heavy, to see if something maybe jiggles a bit inside. We're seeing intriguing things, but we really don't know what's in there.
Alan Stern
Christmas
Light
Think
Christmas Tree
Tree
Earth
Bit
Intriguing
Inside
See
Wrapped
Seeing
Pluto
Something
Tend
Know
Look
Boxes
Sitting
Maybe
Heavy
Whether
Really
Things
Presents
It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we've invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system.
Alan Stern
Time
Good
Space
Fly
Three
Building
Society
Our
Machine
Says
Our Time
System
Pluto
About
Something
Invested
Very
Us
Across
Explore
Miles
Billion
Deep
Treasure
Humans
Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
Alan Thicke
Fitness
Time
Family
Parenting
You
Together
You Can Do It
Valuable
Other
Enough
Enough Time
Spend
Valuable Thing
About
Something
Excite
Instead
Involvement
Motivate
Version
Just
Each
Actively
Thing
Watching
Playing
And I learned a lot from working with this kid, and I think he's gonna be a big star. Remember the name, Tim Dark, because he has something about his voice that's different from all the other rappers, even though his style is similar.
Alan Vega
Dark
Remember
Big
Style
Think
Other
Kid
Though
Rappers
About
Similar
Something
Voice
He
Name
Learned
Because
Tim
His
Lot
Big Star
Different
Gonna
Working
Even
Star
I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.
Alan Zweibel
Me
Enjoy
Every
Laugh
Tell
Promote
Something
Written
Like
Talk
Talk Shows
Because
Making
Am
Audiences
Doing
Lot
Yes
Often
Just
Being
Stories
Acting
Appear
Shows
Actor
If I went to a regular job, if I was a secretary or something, I'd want to look good. I'd dress up for that part.
Alana Blanchard
Good
Job
Secretary
Dress
Dress-Up
Something
Part
Look
Up
Want
Regular
What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the lower-level readers. When you get up into the upper levels, there's nothing that will engage you or compel you or get your emotions churning like a murder. It's the ultimate stakes.
Alane Ferguson
You
Emotions
Will
Nothing
Churning
Would
Something
Mystery
Like
Readers
Ultimate
Up
Get
Upper
Stakes
Engage
Your
Compel
Levels
The beauty of cricket is that there are so many different opinions as to the best way to do something and at times it is easier to see something when you're not emotionally involved in the game and not responsible for the decision. You can go and have a cup of tea and look at it from a different point of view.
Alastair Cook
Best
You
Game
Decision
Beauty
Different Opinions
Tea
Cricket
Way
Easier
Responsible
Best Way
See
Something
Point
Point Of View
Emotionally
Look
Involved
Opinions
Go
Cup
Times
Different
View
Many
When you are so close to something, it's like a bar of soap - if someone says hold on to it, the harder you squeeze, the quicker it pops out of your hand.
Alastair Cook
You
Says
Out
Someone
Something
Like
Hand
Quicker
Close
Squeeze
Hold
Soap
Bar
Your
Pops
Harder
Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Science
Will
Few
Months
Some
Something
Rather
Idea
Days
Most
Read
Because
Hinges
Been
Years
Encountered
Than
Get
Thing
Earlier
Last
One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings.
Alastair Reynolds
Life
You
Science
Drive
Real Life
Way
Those
Dangers
Characters
Bad
Something
Scenes
Never
Part
Like
Particularly
Science Fiction
How
Real
Human
Interact
Where
Fiction
Human Beings
Conversations
Explaining
Turn
Really
Works
Beings
Start
No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Try
Degree
Think
Find
Spin
No Idea
Something
No Reason
Take
Idea
New
Discarded
Does
Got
Story
Might
Ingenuity
Should
Reason
Chops
Eve
Adam
Adam And Eve
Imagine
If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
Alber Elbaz
You
Soul
Party
Cold
Out
Collection
Something
More
Emotion
Take
Individuality
Longevity
Freezer
Does
Person
Happens
Interested
Mean
Certain
Cool
Things
Fragility
I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
Alber Elbaz
Work
Great
Moving Forward
Great Deal
Complain
Seven
Pleasure
Out
Find
Something
Inventing
Only
Week
Feel
Days
Hours
Because
Deal
Six
Six Days
Eighteen
Want
Moving
Creating
Fortunately
Certainly
Forward
Twenty-Four
Why
Desire
Need
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