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I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.
Alice Lowe
Quality
Comedy
Kind
Something
Horror
Only
Fact
Had
Liked
Spoof
Sort
Because
Got
Real
Cult
Were
Six
Which
Little
Episodes
Series
Ever
Garth
Thing
At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
Alice McDermott
Work
Me
Will
Beginning
Every
Something
Students
Read
Understand
Semester
Graduate
Graduate Students
Whether
Ask
Should
Help
I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.
Alice McDermott
Work
Time
Me
Goals
Matter
Think
Define
Somehow
Something
Rather
More
Another
Because
End
Itself
Than
Trying
Often
Convenience
Place
Use
Fascinating
Larger
No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
Alice McDermott
Great
You
Writing
Baby
Says
Must
Something
No-One
Looks
Going
Us
Really
Novelist
Now
Start
Need
I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.
Alice McDermott
Out
Something
Small
Make
Very
Trying
Ordinary
Epic
Conscious
Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
Alice McDermott
Great
You
Book
Reading
Publish
Think
Pleasure
Some
Something
Rather
More
Great Pleasure
Idea
Sort
Readers
Another
Than
Suspect
Just
Taught
Being
Want
Information
Which
Being There
Even
Novel
Baking is more like chemistry, following certain instructions and knowing what comes out in the end. It's almost reassuring! Songwriting is a creative process where you go into a session with nothing and can come out of it with something incredible in the end. I never feel like I'm taking a risk with baking, but always with songwriting.
Alice Merton
You
Creative
Creative Process
Chemistry
Nothing
Incredible
Out
Following
Something
Risk
More
Never
Songwriting
Taking
Almost
Feel
Come
Like
Baking
Instructions
Knowing
Always
Go
End
Where
In The End
Process
Certain
Reassuring
Session
I get mad about something, and then I have this melody in my head, and then afterwards, the lyrics come.
Alice Merton
Lyrics
Melody
Mad
About
Something
Head
Come
Get
Afterwards
Then
I'm not going to release something just because they think it's the next hit. It's not what everyone wants to hear, but that's the way it is.
Alice Merton
Think
Everyone
Way
Release
Something
Because
Hear
Hit
Going
Just
Just Because
Wants
Next
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
Alice Morse Earle
Sad
Life
Strange
World
Thought
First
Ocean
Fathers
Those
Born
Crossed
Something
Boston
Colonial
New
Pilgrims
Years
Infancy
New World
Children
Who
Amsterdam
Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.
Alice Munro
Out
Something
Write
Never
Come
Like
Ideas
Look
Well
Material
Still
Up
Intend
Going
Short
Want
Stories
Break
Break Up
Short Stories
Happens
Them
Really
Turns
Certainly
Even
Novel
Novels
Why
Start
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
Alice Oswald
Down
Something
Take
Making
Hear
Question
Dictation
Trying
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.
Alice Oswald
Me
You
People
Slow
Reading
Way
Totally
Something
Poem
Through
Read
Get
Just
Different
Tune
Which
Straight
Meaning
Used
Novels
Now
I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.
Alice Ripley
Life
Day
You
Creative
Yourself
Every Day
Wait
Practice
Every
Telling
Someone
Something
Students
Feeds
Talking
Because
Always
How
Am
Hire
Them
Your
Creative Life
Need
I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.
Alice Smith
Good
Me
Way
Something
Voice
Like
Well
Sound
Listen
Then
Separate
Started
I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.
Alice Walker
Terrorism
Father
Mind
White
Too
Frame
Out
Must
Obeying
Something
Segregation
Could
He
Taken
Feels
Like
Know
Look
Because
Said
South
Up
Person
Just
Middle
Just Because
Grew
Mean
Your
Night
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice Walker
You
Man
Woman
People
Money
Trouble
Nothing
White
Else
Our
Our People
Out
Give
Something
Fact
Soon
Got
Want
Either
Land
Your
Slavery
America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
Alice Walker
Will
Long
Beginning
Our
See
Something
Only
Color
Knows
Survive
America
Done
Maybe
In The Beginning
Who
Descendants
Nearly
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
Alice Walker
Myself
Book
Writing
College
Beginning
Gone
Think
Something
Poems
Had
Sophomore
Until
Wrote
Junior
Child
Maybe
Africa
Published
Actually
Started
I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.
Alice Waters
Sad
You
Age
Getting Older
World
Old
Old Age
Older
Something
Sad Thing
Feel
Like
Look
Around
Been
Very
America
Getting
Where
Different
Places
Different Places
Forward
Many
Thing
Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.
Alice Waters
Something
Know
Chef
How
Six
Whenever
Want
Ask
Cook
I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.
Alice Waters
Generation
People
World
Money
Salt
Think
Sugar
Addictions
Spend
Ways
Focused
Wealthy
Something
Delicious
Habit
Adult
Students
Feed
Takes
Most
Because
Got
Very
Just
Being
Famous
Break
Next
Next Generation
Hard
Even
Enlightened
Universities
Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
Alice Waters
Food
Else
Something
Like
Precious
Commodity
Anything
Anything Else
It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.
Alice Waters
Good
Important
Public Schools
Kids
Something
Feed
Schools
Go
Public
Them
Really
When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
Alicia Keys
Me
Feeling
Stage
Energy
Other
Alive
Inside
Something
Something New
Crowd
New
Come
Like
Makes
Audience
Interaction
Fuels
Really
I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.
Alicia Keys
Love
Music
Me
Love Me
Hate
People
Would
Something
Make
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