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I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.
James Patterson
Book
Writing
Too
Mind-Boggling
Trial
Out
Would
Exactly
Like
Know
How
Am
End
Did
Suspense
Little
Turn
I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.
James Patterson
Chapter
Try
Car
Big
Else
Easy
Something
Something Else
Having
Write
Never
Head
Like
Up
Blow
Going
Suspense
Movie
Pace
Turn
Turn-On
Your
Keeps
Things
Flowing
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.
James Surowiecki
Tough
Thrive
Fraudulent
Economic
Tend
Schemes
Up
Times
Wall
Wall Street
Blow
Turn
Street
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.
James Surowiecki
Life
Hope
You
Yourself
Will
Few
Starve
Approach
Corporations
Days
Concept
Call
Around
Overnight
Might
Turn
Thin
Right
Things
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
James Wolcott
Machine
Broadway
Musicals
Would
Someone
More
Through
Wishing
Years
Off
Blow
May
Turn
Turn-Off
Popcorn
Recent
Imaginative
Recent Years
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
Jamie Dimon
You
Impossible
Ideology
Compromise
Principles
Without
Turn
Your
Nearly
Violating
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
Jamie Foxx
Films
Back
Our
Say
We Cannot
Sort
Does
Influence
Anything
Cannot
Turn
Violence
My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
Jan Karon
Life
Work
Result
My Life
Energy
Busy
Drains
Thorn
Extremely
Spiritually
Feel
Always
Am
While
Turn
Full
Playing
Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.
Jandy Nelson
Time
Failure
You
Book
People
Key
First
Think
Speed
Other
Recipe
Spend
Out
Bears
Writers
Taking
Years
Years And Years
Expectations
Expected
Often
Them
Turn
Then
Warp
Novels
Second
Need
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen
Half
Others
State
Follow
Followed
Without
Being
Flatter
Flattered
Turn
Enjoyment
Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.
Jane Levy
Character
You
Else
Wearing
Someone
Costume
Part
Huge
Huge Part
Getting
Turn
Body
Your
Your Body
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
Jane Porter
You
Dance
Will
Lose
Slip
Ring
Bear
Through
Brute
Sort
Mob
Nose
Hold
While
Turn
Should
Your
Even
I just did a film in which I had to be a dancer and I was able to do all kinds of extraordinary things. A lot of people turn 50 and talk about what they're not going to do anymore. I embarked on something that I'd wanted to do when I was 5.
Jane Seymour
People
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Dancer
Embarked
Kinds
Able
About
Something
Had
Talk
Lot
Did
Going
Just
Anymore
Wanted
Which
Turn
Film
Things
A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
Life
Day
Long
Believe
Herself
Seven
Out
Must
Tortured
About
Put
Simply
Cage
Day-Out
Feet
Most
She
Around
Scratch
Sow
Tiny
Where
Cannot
Turn
Breeding
Stands
Her
Wide
Two
I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.
Janet Evanovich
Love
Time
Book
Long
Would
More
Period
Historical
American
Did
Romance
Turn
Century
Fascinated
Set
If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'
Janet Montgomery
Christmas
You
Down
Abbey
Like
Course
Turn
Asked
Episode
English
Actor
Downton Abbey
We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
Janet Reno
Time
Best
Matter
Father
Will
Our
Negotiate
Those
Tried
Step
Thwarted
Longest
Over
Longest Time
Boy
Said
Were
His
Turn
Each
Peaceful
Resolution
Paying interest on reserve balances enables the Fed to break the strong link between the quantity of reserves and the level of the federal funds rate and, in turn, allows the Federal Reserve to control short-term interest rates when reserves are plentiful.
Janet Yellen
Strong
Control
Plentiful
Rate
Rates
Fed
Federal
Federal Reserve
Between
Balances
Quantity
Enables
Link
Break
Short-Term
Interest
Interest Rates
Turn
Paying
Reserve
Reserves
Level
Funds
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
Jared Diamond
Hope
Me
Learning
Books
Possibility
TV
See
Somalia
Magazines
Gives
Main
Main Thing
Like
Remote
Blew
Conditions
Iraq
Up
Afghanistan
Turn
Turn-On
Us
Radio
Media
Thing
Societies
We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I know where the sound came from. But if you had your back to me and I holler and you turn around, you would assume somebody hollered. You want your decoys to represent the sound that you're making.
Jase Robertson
Me
You
Somebody
Looking
Assume
Back
Would
Only
Had
Towards
Name
Know
Call
Around
Making
Sound
Ducks
Came
Represent
Ends
Where
Want
Turn
Then
Us
Your
Rear
Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?
Jasmine Guinness
People
Would
Bores
Paranoid
Seem
Go
Want
Anyone
Turn
Why
I wish that more people were willing to turn down upfront money in exchange for doing things that are more original. Turning down a seven-figure check has a ripple effect on the budget, which has a ripple effect on the storytelling. The higher the budget gets, the fewer storytelling risks you're able to take.
Jason Blum
You
Risks
Ripple
People
Money
Wish
Down
Willing
Able
More
More People
Higher
Take
Exchange
Check
Budget
Doing
Were
Effect
Upfront
Gets
Fewer
Which
Storytelling
Turn
Turning
Original
Things
Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?
Jason Blum
You
People
Ego
Money
First
Think
Our
About
Cost
Horror
Horror Movies
Cheap
Know
Most
First Of All
Make
Lot
Up
Get
Noses
Movie
Which
Movies
Turn
Hollywood
Really
Company
Showy
Second
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
Jason Kidd
Degrees
Around
Going
Turn
Team
From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.
Jason Reitman
Time
You
Better
Comedy
Drama
Dime
Find
Ability
All-Time
Allen
Writers
He
Simply
Major
Make
Match
Greatest
Dialogue
Hit
Than
Going
Pathos
Wanted
Woody
Woody Allen
Turn
Then
Much
Series
Based
I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.
Jason Statham
Risks
Every
Out
Risk
Take
No-One
Like
Knows
Going
Movie
Turn
Prepared
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