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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
Karen Thompson Walker
Love
Beautiful
Writing
Books
Favorites
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Road
Combine
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Blindness
Stylish
McCarthy
Story
Gripping
Really
Interpreter
I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
Karin Slaughter
People
About
Read
Sort
Up
Get
Serial
Things
I grew up in Michigan, in the Detroit area, so cars are sort of in my DNA.
Karl Iagnemma
Car
Area
Detroit
Sort
Up
Michigan
Grew
We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
Karl Marlantes
Age
Human Being
Nothing
Every
Everything
Boot
Boot Camp
Out
Some
About
Through
Wrong
Learn
Sort
Because
How
Go
Camp
Irony
Human
Being
Where
Want
Then
Stand
Special
Unique
Zero
Start
I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
Karl Pilkington
Best
Dangerous
Pet
Animals
Saw
Say
Out
About
Someone
Had
Roaming
Most
House
Sort
Just
Africa
Wandering
Planet
Meant
Meant To Be
I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
Karl Pilkington
Good
People
Sometimes
Will
Down
Panic
Bit
Hiding
Out
Tell
Running
Good Reason
Price
Put
Make
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How
Up
Wonder
Short
Gonna
Should
Means
Reason
Deep
Deep Down
Load
I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
Karl Pilkington
Love
Nature
Programs
Favorite
Favorite Thing
Telly
About
Something
Weird
Most
Sort
Oceans
Fish
Goes
Much
Thing
Amount
Hardly
Things
Watch
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove
You
Seen
Myth
Own
About
Myths
Town
Like
Know
Look
Talked
Sort
Subject
Existence
Very
Often
Creates
Washington
Amusement
I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
Karl Rove
Me
Hate
People
Active
Other
Strikes
About
Sort
Got
Sound
Doing
Lot
Lives
Right
Things
My father used to play ice hockey, though not at a high level, and my mother wasn't involved in sport at all, but they were keen that we played some sort of sport. They chose tennis because they thought it was a good sport for girls to play.
Karolina Pliskova
Good
Mother
Father
Thought
Girl
Though
High
High Level
Some
Tennis
Involved
Sport
Sort
Because
Were
Hockey
Ice
Used
Keen
Chose
Play
Level
Played
I would say I was not working in the real sense in 'Paiyaa.' After doing very heavy scenes in my first two films, in 'Paiya,' I was romancing a girl, talking all sorts of funny things, and doing all light things just as if I were not acting!
Karthi
Funny
Light
Girl
First
Sense
Films
Funny Things
Say
Would
Scenes
Sort
Talking
Real
Doing
Were
Very
Real Sense
Just
Heavy
After
Working
Acting
Things
Two
I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential.
Karyn Kusama
Our
Unlocking
Secrets
Drawn
Kinds
About
Potential
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Ultimately
Human
Stories
Many
Film
The nice thing about movies is that you can sort of steer your audience toward seeing that there's discomfort, but there's also this sense of, 'Well, we'll tolerate this weirdness because maybe it'll be interesting.'
Karyn Kusama
You
Sense
Nice
Seeing
About
Steer
Toward
Weirdness
Also
Well
Sort
Because
Audience
Discomfort
Maybe
Interesting
Movies
Your
Tolerate
Nice Thing
Thing
I would love to make lighter entertainments that have you sort of hopping and skipping and jumping out of the theater, but part of me just doesn't know how much I believe in that, as much as I want to.
Karyn Kusama
Love
Me
You
Believe
Out
Would
Part
Lighter
Know
Make
Sort
How
How Much
Jumping
Just
Want
Theater
Much
Skipping
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
Kat Edmonson
Life
Sentiment
Every
Carefully
Guess
Spend
Way
Those
Intonation
Out
Would
Absorb
Head
Studying
Hours
Singer
Sort
Although
How
Sound
Coming
Very
Any
Conventional
Conventional Way
Convey
Whole
Things
Watched
When I was a kid, to me, all women that I think were beautiful always tend to be ethnic of some sort. To be honest I think it's the eyebrows - the powerful, strong eyebrows.
Kat Von D
Beautiful
Me
Women
Strong
To Be Honest
Think
Kid
Eyebrows
All Women
Some
Tend
Powerful
Sort
Always
Were
Ethnic
Honest
I remember going down the tunnel into the Olympic Stadium and getting a glimpse of all the people and hearing all the noise, all the people shouting for us. I'd seen Usain Bolt on the warm-up track, and then, as I walked into the stadium, I sort of realised how big it was!
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Noise
People
Remember
Seen
Big
Down
Glimpse
Track
Sort
How
Hearing
Walked
Getting
Going
Stadium
Realised
Tunnel
Warm-Up
Then
Us
Shouting
Bolt
Olympic
I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Katarina Witt
Needs
Me
Big
Sort
Climb
Mountain
Person
Front
Who
I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
Kate Adie
War
Job
Thought
About
Never
Had
Part
Sort
Go
Any
Just
Happened
Zone
Desired
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Kate Bernheimer
Me
You
Struggle
Marriage
Abandonment
Fears
Parents
Transformation
Range
Plots
Find
Sexual
Some
About
Seem
Absent
Recurring
Tales
Look
Sort
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Around
Revolve
Often
Stories
Many
Initiation
Elemental
Elements
Desires
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
Kate Bernheimer
Reading
Immersed
Poems
Writer
Excited
Read
Reader
Sort
Fairytale
Coming
Very
Stories
Notice
Help
Many
Techniques
Plays
The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.
Kate Brown
Moving Forward
Challenge
Those
About
Strongly
Feel
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Issues
Moving
Forward
Capturing
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
Kate Bush
Time
Tired
Nervous
Difficult
Think
Nervous Breakdown
Having
Couple
Read
Sort
Very
Close
Breakdown
Really
Things
Difficult Time
It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
Kate Bush
You
Think
Admirer
Totally
Like
Sort
Came
Huge
Very
Irish
American
Pop
Roots
English
Base
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
Kate Christensen
Day
Will
Fall
Down
Living
Think
Changes
Ghosts
Inside
Scared
Some
Structure
More
Crumbling
Sort
Effect
Itself
Than
Human
Dying
Happen
Human Body
Ages
Body
Full
Even
Whenever I am with a group of kids, I always ask them, 'How many of you know about the summer reading program at your library and how many of you know it's free?' Spreading that sort of message comes very naturally to me.
Kate DiCamillo
Me
You
Library
Free
Reading
Group
Summer
Kids
About
Know
Message
Sort
Always
How
Am
Spreading
Very
Whenever
Them
Ask
Your
Naturally
Many
Program
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