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I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.
Jeff Kinney
Life
Truth
Time
You
Truth Is
Book
Writing
Ugly
Matter
Definitely
Tell
Some
About
Knowing
Audience
Subject
Subject Matter
Person
Different
Puberty
Awfulness
Second
Third
Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.
Jeffrey Zeldman
You
Rest
Interpretation
Valid
Validation
Run
Easy
Through
Stuff
Headline
Subject
Site
Biggest
Whether
Either
Should
Your
As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.
Jen Kirkman
Change
Woman
Age
Debate
Mind
Will
Kids
About
Over
Since
Parts
Were
Been
Subject
Hit
Wanting
Again
Puberty
Public
Really
Certain
Certain Age
Suddenly
Ever
I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.
Jens Lekman
You
Sense Of Humor
Writing
Humor
Sense
Distance
Bit
Telling
About
Something
More
Like
Also
Subject
Stories
Interested
Using
Serious
Titles always sound so pretentious, and when I see a comedian, I just want the person to take flight, not stick to one topic or subject.
Jeremy Hardy
Pretentious
Topic
See
Take
Comedian
Stick
Always
Sound
Subject
Person
Just
Want
Titles
Flight
It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.
Jerome Powell
Natural
Increased
Fragmentation
Diminishing
Borders
Returns
Limits
Subject
Quite
Process
Across
Production
Plausible
I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.
Jerry Della Femina
Great
Creative
Men
Revolution
Once
Mad
Mad Men
David
Attended
Hotel
New
Advertising
Dean
His
Subject
Conference
Held
Speaker
Original
Speech
People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.
Jerry Hall
Best
Science
People
Girl
Think
Honours
High
Student
Scholarship
Voted
Most
Likely
Subject
Texas
Won
North
Succeed
Who were the biggest acts in the world in 1987? Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I shamelessly pandered to surfers and skateboarders, and in pictures from then, you'll see Slash and those guys wearing N.W.A stuff. If they thought it was cool, people in Kansas and Wyoming would buy it. That's how we broached the subject.
Jerry Heller
Buy
You
People
World
Thought
Those
Would
See
Wearing
Guns
Guys
Stuff
Pictures
Metallica
How
Were
Subject
Biggest
Then
Kansas
Roses
Who
Cool
Cool People
Acts
Slash
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
Jerry Lewis
Life
Man
Walk
Young
Out
Dream
Onstage
Never
Had
He
Stuff
Well
Him
How
Doing
Hire
His
Subject
Off
Authorities
Going
Behind
Young Man
Teach
Fortune
Right
Pull
Monologue
Needing
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.
Jerry Saltz
Matter
Francis
Francis Bacon
Those
Bacon
Criticize
Sexist
Joseph
Putting
Nobody
Calls
Female
Female Artists
Opinions
Limiting
Subject
Subject Matter
Itself
Artists
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
Jerry Saltz
Art
Matter
Soft Spot
Bad
Bad Taste
Terms
Spot
Material
Subject
Subject Matter
Taste
Soft
As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter.
Jesmyn Ward
Matter
Responsibility
Difficult
About
Write
Feel
Subject
Subject Matter
Artist
Certain
I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.
Jessica Lange
Photography
Dark
Fly
Somewhere
Sets
Approach
Location
Though
Kind
Would
About
Never
Like
Around
Always
Camera
Subject
Sneak
Wall
Shot
Engage
Traveling
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Jessica Savitch
Attitude
Family
You
Conflict
Focus
Danger
About
Strongly
Potential
Except
Never
Biased
Subject
Refuse
Hold
Interest
Your
Assignment
I've been fascinated with the subject of loss for a long time. In particular, I'm interested in how people, consciously or unconsciously, spend their lives replacing the things they lost when they were children.
Jill Davis
Time
People
Long
Long Time
Lost
Spend
Particular
How
Were
Been
Loss
Subject
Replacing
Children
Interested
Fascinated
Lives
Things
Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.
Jim Crace
History
Natural
Books
Obsessed
Most
Because
Always
Been
Subject
Walker
Natural History
Landscape
Tone
I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
Jim Crace
Health
Good
Good Health
Me
Heart
Happy
Marriage
Book
Matter
Long
Distance
Ways
Some
No-One
Between
Read
Because
Felt
Subject
Subject Matter
Upbringing
Wants
Novels
Based
When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.
Jim Murphy
Good
You
Will
Year
Others
Spend
Indicator
Well
Still
Doing
Subject
Researching
Appeal
Fascinated
Two
I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.
Joanna Scott
Confusion
Think
Minded
Favorite
Would
Writer
Him
His
Subject
Reviews
Donald
Essays
Being
Fiction
Confusing
There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!
Jody Watley
Change
Culture
People
Black
Beauty
Live
Other
Types
Say
More
Touchy
Like
Always
Subject
Celebrated
Where
Want
Sensuality
Help
Thing
I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.
Joe Dante
Time
You
Think
About
Subject
Very
Much
Product
Your
Cynicism
Ever
I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.
Joe Flaherty
Funny
Attitude
You
Seen
Draw
Mad
TV
Some
Seem
Toward
Stuff
Sort
How
How Much
Subject
Truly
Lot
Blood
Depends
Want
Much
Watched
Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.
Joe Sacco
Age
Matter
Think
Approach
Draw
One Thing
About
Take
He
Crumb
Like
Robert
How
His
Subject
Subject Matter
Times
Artists
Influence
Should
Thing
The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.
Joel Gretsch
Wonderful
Everything
Possibilities
Know
Sci-Fi
Subject
Than
Bigger
With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'
Joel Sternfeld
You
Book
Interpretation
Background
Photograph
About
Know
Subject
Left
Author
Same
Modes
Ask
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