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You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people's Internet activities as they typed. I became aware of just how invasive U.S. surveillance capabilities had become. I realized the true breadth of this system. And almost nobody knew it was happening.
Edward Snowden
You
People
Internet
Become
Typed
Everyone
System
See
Entire
Could
Had
Knew
True
Almost
Nobody
Tracking
Became
How
Doing
Surveillance
Just
Breadth
Happening
Capabilities
Realized
Villages
Activities
Aware
Watch
Watched
If I need a pick-me-up, I pull up a memo file on my phone and type in three things I'm grateful for. The things I've typed on other days are still there. It's a long list. Always helps.
Andrew Yang
Grateful
Phone
Three
Long
Other
Type
Typed
Memo
Long List
Days
Always
Still
Up
List
File
Helps
Things
Need
Pull
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal
Myself
Money
Car
Typed
Pleasure
Possible
Finding
Able
Yachts
Greatest
Making
Making Money
Greatest Pleasure
Many
Started
Buying
Drafts
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.
Regina Brett
Life
Me
Soul
Words
Added
Typed
Ran
Paper
Pen
Out
More
My Soul
Lay
Had
Simply
Column
Leak
Ideas
Bed
Caught
Up
Reflecting
Five
Hit
Taught
Again
Them
Newspaper
Turned
Lessons
Set
If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.
Tom Wolfe
Today
You
Writing
Try
Typed
Back
Typewriter
System
Would
Would-Be
Find
Horrible
Touch
Computer
Take
Had
Missing
Parts
Years
Going
Unfortunately
Newspapers
Worked
Choice
Search
Keep
Writing fueled me, and my task was to make it fit into my life. I practiced my trade as an attorney, and on weekends and holidays, I typed away. I assumed a nom de plume, Selena Montgomery, to separate my fiction from more academic publications.
Stacey Abrams
Life
Me
Writing
My Life
Assumed
Typed
Montgomery
More
Weekends
Attorney
Academic
Make
Practiced
Trade
Fit
Task
Fiction
Holidays
Fueled
Separate
Publications
Away
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Jim Harrison
War
Peace
Chapter
Old
Made
Rest
Somebody
First
Typed
Recognized
Out
Only
Up
Sent
Then
Fun
Fun Thing
Publisher
Thing
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Dylan Thomas
Conviction
Think
Too
Typed
Harsh
Bad
Some
Poems
Until
Sort
Always
Least
Lends
Then
Certainty
Appear
Things
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
Chaim Potok
Book
Typed
Once
Constantly
Entire
Through
Written
Go
Revising
Again
Draft
I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.
Ginger Rogers
Me
Fault
Thought
Men
Girl
Singing
Films
Typed
Dancing
Range
Musicals
Ten
Only
Ten Years
Except
Had
Head
Almost
Terms
Pigeonholed
Making
Been
Years
Just
Being
Wanted
Stand
Found
Extend
I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and Eric driving. I just wrote the whole thing on my phone. I just typed out the lyrics.
Jessie James Decker
Phone
Car
Girl
Typed
Back
Lyrics
Kids
Out
Write
Driving
Weirdest
Wrote
Eric
Just
Places
Coast
Whole
Thing
I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
Carly Fiorina
Phones
Typed
Out
Answered
Little
Company
Started
Casting is a convoluted kind of trip. No one likes to be typed - even if you're a cab driver, or whatever you do.
Harry Dean Stanton
You
Whatever
Typed
Kind
Trip
Casting
Cab
Cab Driver
Driver
No-One
Likes
Convoluted
Even
I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.
Gene Hackman
Day
Morning
Me
Sometimes
Wife
Typed
Bit
About
Previous
Write
Had
Over
Till
Noon
Off
Up
Done
Going
Eight
Afternoon
Which
Again
Happily
Start
I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
Alan Furst
Mother
Old
Mysteries
Typed
Out
Longhand
Wrote
Little
Them
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
Bob Kane
Own
Imagination
Typed
Collaborated
Mutually
Finger
My Own
He
Days
Ideas
Concepts
Also
Wrote
Although
Came
Fertile
Literally
Story
Scripts
Bill
Many
Unique
Twists
Early
Early Days
I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.
Megan Mullally
Long
Band
Typed
Email
Name
Ideas
Up
Different
Sent
Started
When the draft lottery came out, and the Clippers said they were gonna draft me, I went to Google to find out more about the Clippers because I didn't know a lot. And I was like, 'Okay, team owned by Donald Sterling.' So then I typed in 'Donald Sterling' in Google, and the first thing that pops up is 'Donald Sterling racist.'
Blake Griffin
Me
First
Google
Typed
Okay
Out
Find
About
More
Like
Sterling
Know
First Thing
Because
Said
Came
Were
Lot
Lottery
Up
Donald
Owned
The First Thing
Gonna
Then
Team
Pops
Thing
Draft
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
Jack Adams
Typed
Out
Office
Where
Communications
Assignment
I just typed up three, four paragraphs of an idea and dropped it in a box at the Chicago Comic Con in the summer of 2000, I guess, or 2001 - I forget. I just dropped it on a stack of a giant pile of dozens of other entries. Months later, I was thrilled to get a call from a Marvel editor while I was working my crappy day-job.
Jason Aaron
Three
Other
Guess
Typed
Summer
Later
Months
Giant
Paragraphs
Thrilled
Marvel
Con
Dropped
Idea
Call
Box
Pile
Comic
Editor
Comic-Con
Chicago
Up
Forget
Get
Stack
Just
Crappy
While
Working
Dozens
Four
One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.
Luise Rainer
Typed
Dangers
Becoming
Biggest
Hollywood
I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.
Eleanor Catton
Type
Typed
Everything
Out
Possible
Find
Highlight
Print
Printed
Often
Interesting
Notes
Then
I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
Lauren Willig
Women
Book
Typed
Mystery
Been
Historical
Chick
Historical Fiction
Same
Romance
Lit
Fiction
My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company.
Geraldine McCaughrean
Age
Book
Sister
Older
Other
Typed
Out
Brother
Seemed
Someone
Superiority
Adored
Had
Shared
Himself
Safer
Always
Bed
Were
Years
Effortless
Anxious
Six
Children
Double
Show
Company
Each
Keep
Whom
Illustrated
Shy