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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
Al Pacino
You
Mind
First
Few
Stage
Back
Later
Francis
Directions
Days
Like
Read
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Ford
Narrator
Go
Tape
Did
Listen
Movie
Cut
Then
Your
Show
Radio
Rough
Film
Coppola
Early
Plays
Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.
Alain de Botton
Friendship
Death
Day
Wise
Management
Anxiety
Down
Approach
Relationships
About
Pursuit
Student
Stuff
Instruction
Learn
Sort
Where
Children
Career
Raising
Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger on television?'
Alain de Botton
People
Think
Television
Arena
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Intellectual
Very
Trying
Irritating
Public
Why
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
Alan Greenspan
Fear
Fall
Down
Critical
Slowly
Bubbles
Contagion
Sharply
Look
Forces
Sort
Builds
Causes
Go
Intellectually
Up
Dominant
Very
Shocked
Hits
Size
Which
Apart
Then
Euphoria
Many
Thing
Started
Phenomenon
It was sort of assumed, from the time I was born, really, that I would go to college. That's sort of the way that Jewish families in New Jersey handled things; that was the norm.
Alan Guth
Time
College
Assumed
Way
Would
Born
New
Sort
New Jersey
Go
Norm
Families
Handled
Really
Jersey
Things
Jewish
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
Alan Kay
People
Voting
Threshold
Before
Few
Whatever
Situation
Believe
Everyone
Once
Something
Demands
Reached
Sort
Becomes
Normal
Few People
Quite
Then
I always wanted to be a composer, and I sort of went in to NYU as pre-med because I just thought, 'Well... who actually becomes a composer?'
Alan Menken
Thought
Composer
Well
Sort
Because
Becomes
Always
Just
Wanted
Who
NYU
Actually
When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.
Alan Moore
Time
Together
Ending
Beginning
Thinking
Once
About
Through
Write
Points
Generally
Putting
Idea
Know
Couple
Sort
Halfway
Although
Got
Up
Story
Sentence
The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.
Alan Shepard
Me
Space
Build
Launch
Carrying
Excitement
Stuff
Until
Sort
Trailer
Up
Which
Pad
Really
Start
Pulled
Suit
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis Morissette
Work
Best
Book
People
Mind
Own
Down
Other
Back
Would
Some
My Own
Point
Write
Like
Deadline
Sort
Breathing
Fifty
Million
Things
Million People
Neck
To be remembered at all is an achievement of sorts.
Alastair Reynolds
Achievement
Remembered
Sort
I would much rather we concentrated on the immediate, still-potent dangers, such as nuclear weapons, runaway climate change, and so on. Sort those out, then worry about Hal 9000.
Alastair Reynolds
Change
Worry
Immediate
Those
Dangers
Out
Runaway
Would
Weapons
About
Rather
Concentrated
Hal
Sort
Climate
Climate Change
Then
Much
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
Alber Elbaz
Art
You
Word
Creation
Design
Some
Object
Something
Only
Also
Sort
Because
Pragmatic
Said
End
Commercial
Essence
Maybe
CEOs
Use
I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.
Albert Brooks
You
Age
Christopher
Guess
Back
See
Pretty
Give
Feel
Von
Like
Sort
Although
Answer
How
Am
Doing
Go
Max
Done
Going
Little
Mean
Then
Much
Shot
Acting
Now
Started
In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.
Albert Brooks
Creative
Writing
Tough
Guess
Ease
Releasing
Giant
Financing
Never
Had
Part
Sort
Course
Because
Always
Got
Making
Blockbuster
Were
Loved
Movies
Next
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
Albert J. Nock
Life
Spiritual
Christianity
Heritage
Correspondence
Immortality
See
Spiritual Life
Could
Never
Environment
Terms
Sort
Always
Conditioned
Same
Common
Should
Organized
Why
I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.
Alberto Gonzales
Government
Respect
Think
Society
Our
Check
Over
Sort
Very
Role
Much
Useful
Helpful
Actions
Media
Serve
You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.
Alek Wek
Me
You
Ugly
Mind
Thought
Entitled
Difficult
Think
Would
Find
Someone
Crossed
Strongly
Absolutely
Never
Knew
Feel
Like
Sort
Very
Upbringing
Model
Same
Any
Who
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
Aleksandar Hemon
Some
Postmodern
Fact
Between
Like
Reader
Sort
Line
Fiction
Blur
For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'
Alex Ebert
Life
Class
Better
My Life
Living
Relate
Consider
Would
Find
Somehow
Part
Sort
Because
Always
Up
Trying
Wanted
Grew
Much
Really
Manufacture
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
Alex Ebert
Music
Needs
You
People
Song
Writing
Remember
Major
Sort
Repeat
Popular
Popular Music
Chorus
Need
I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.
Alex Garland
Funny
Writing
Same Thing
Think
Funny Way
Way
Directing
Write
Between
Also
Sort
Same
Really
Differentiate
Thing
Set
I am a vegetarian, and I sort of aspire to vegan-hood. So far I've noticed no difference at all in my climbing, but I feel a bit healthier overall. Though that's only because I'm eating more fruits and vegetables. I think the whole protein thing is overhyped. Most Americans eat far more than we need.
Alex Honnold
Vegetables
Think
Bit
Though
No Difference
Eat
Eating
More
Only
Vegetarian
Feel
Overall
Most
Sort
Protein
Because
Am
Healthier
Climbing
Than
American
Difference
Fruits
Far
Noticed
Aspire
Whole
Thing
Need
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
Alex Kapranos
Music
World
Think
Indie
Sort
False
False Modesty
Modesty
Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.
Alex Kingston
Diversity
Think
Programming
Find
Cartoons
Pretty
Terms
Sort
Stimulating
Shoddy
America
Any
Lack
Children
Much
Disney
Shows
I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.
Alex Kingston
Me
Say
Never
Sort
Been
Person
Size
Now
Zero
Here
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