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Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.
Alice Munro
Out
Something
Write
Never
Come
Like
Ideas
Look
Well
Material
Still
Up
Intend
Going
Short
Want
Stories
Break
Break Up
Short Stories
Happens
Them
Really
Turns
Certainly
Even
Novel
Novels
Why
Start
Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' and Carole King's 'It's Too Late' are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every day. The melodies are timeless in the rock world, the lyrics are words that I need to say, and they need to be heard again.
Alice Ripley
Day
Every Day
Too Late
Words
World
King
Practice
Every
Too
Late
Lyrics
Say
Melodies
Examples
Songs
Road
Thunder
Rock
Am
Springsteen
Heard
Timeless
Again
Why
Need
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
Alice Sebold
Daily
Me
You
People
Think
Everything
Having
Through
Because
Go
Up
Very
Ends
Happen
Explained
Interesting
Little
Explanation
Interesting Thing
Us
Your
Actions
Why
Specific
Thing
Things
Things Happen
Desire
I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?
Alice Sebold
Thought
Sense
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Pants
Had
Wrong
Weird
Weirder
Like
Always
Being
Clothing
Want
Censored
Your
Paint
Why
Things
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.
Alice Sebold
Me
You
Important
Understanding
Pleasures
Those
Would
Give
Idea
Joys
Intellectual
Very
Heaven
Want
Certain
Why
Things
I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?
Alicia Garza
Life
Police
Matter
Somebody
Example
Important
Think
Running
For Example
Concerns
Around
Does
Real
Official
Story
Whose
Why
I always tried to move up the food chain. I started with cement and then moved into textiles and banking. When I was trading sugar, I added salt and flour so that then we could do pasta. And then I thought, why not make the bag for it, too? So, we started making packaging.
Aliko Dangote
Food
Thought
Salt
Sugar
Too
Added
Tried
Food Chain
Could
Bag
Make
Always
Making
Trading
Up
Pasta
Move
Moved
Cement
Banking
Packaging
Then
Chain
Why
Why Not
Flour
Started
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.
Alison Bechdel
People
Important
Reading
Think
Something
Finish
Know
How
How Much
Author
Want
Happened
Much
Really
Novel
Why
Things
I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as we do, why human nature is the way that it is. And it always seemed to me that you find answers to those questions by looking at children.
Alison Gopnik
Nature
Me
You
Humanity
World
Looking
Big
Human Nature
Way
Those
Find
About
Seemed
Know
Understand
Answer
Always
How
Answers
Questions
Big Questions
Human
Children
Wanted
Much
Why
Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.
Alison Gopnik
Experience
Impossible
Care
Others
Philosophers
Our
Say
Exactly
About
Features
True
Terms
Scientific
Scientists
Just
Experiences
Explain
Explained
Certain
Special
Many
Why
Conscious
Consciousness
Biological
I do always want to be creating something; I can't help it. I don't know why that is, but I'm certainly not gonna knock it now, at the age of 36. It seems to be working.
Alison Mosshart
Age
Seems
Something
Knock
Know
Always
Want
Gonna
Creating
Working
Certainly
Help
Now
Why
I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?'
Alison Moyet
Me
You
Remember
School
Young
Would
He
Head
Said
Yeah
Audition
Going
Oh
Oh Yeah
Want
Wanted
Asked
Act
English
Why
It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.
Alison Sweeney
You
Yourself
Mirror
Gym
Weird
Look
Make
Sure
Doing
Why
Right
Things
Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!
Alison Sweeney
Love
Time
Day
You
Every Day
Pet
Every
Enough
Nutrition
Eat
Both
Fed
Attention
Make
Sure
Exercise
Always
Lot
Get
Same
Getting
Same Time
Them
Should
Your
Why
Watch
Humans
Need
Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so much that they don't need to be paid fairly. It's this sense of, 'Oh well, labor and love are two different things.'
Alissa Quart
Work
Love
Sense
Part
Well
Fairly
Because
Prisoners
Labor
Oh
Different
Much
Poorly
Workers
Paid
Different Things
Why
Things
Two
Need
Touring, it's really difficult to actually make a band work, and I think that's why there's so few bands that do work, actually, 'cause there's so much that goes into it.
Alissa White-Gluz
Work
Cause
Band
Few
Difficult
Think
Touring
Make
Bands
Goes
Much
Really
Why
Actually
We don't follow trends; I don't think we even set trends. We just do our own thing. We just do what we love. That's why Arch Enemy sounds like that.
Alissa White-Gluz
Love
Enemy
Own
Think
Our
Trends
Arch
Follow
Like
Sounds
Just
Even
Why
Thing
Set
I make a dribble or a simple pass, knowing that if I lose the ball near the area, the opponent can score. I am aware of what I do on the pitch, but I always do it to help the team. That's why, occasionally ,I also boot the ball into the stands.
Alisson
Simple
Lose
Boot
Dribble
Area
Also
Knowing
Make
Occasionally
Ball
Pass
Always
Am
Opponent
Score
Pitch
Team
Help
Stands
Aware
Why
Near
While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.
Allen Klein
Good
Science
Better
Laugh
Cases
Feel
Know
Most
Prove
Hearty
After
While
Us
Many
Why
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
Allen Tate
Poem
Written
Came
Question
Where
After
Why
I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior.
Allen West
Denial
Behavior
Election
Believe
Consistently
Conspicuous
Bad
Obama
Bad Behavior
More
Attention
Voters
Most
Accepted
Were
Years
Wonder
Get
Rewarded
Just
Stopped
Then
Paying
Why
Acts
Among
Recent
Recent Years
At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
Ally Carter
Dreams
People
Try
Fears
Characters
Insecurities
Hopefully
Hopes
Write
Identify
Readers
Real
Real People
Which
Them
Who
Why
Core
My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
Alton Brown
Me
Cooking
Book
First
About
Talk
Because
Understand
Heat
Quite
Common
Processes
Ingredient
Really
Exploration
Why
Whatever you do, whether you're a journalist or a player, you want to see what you can do - that's why you're doing it.
Alun Wyn Jones
You
Journalist
Whatever
See
Doing
Want
Whether
Why
Player
I remember when I started performing, I thought, 'Why is this something that we do after hours, underground?' I was waiting on the world to change and the idea of this art to become mainstream, and I think that's what 'RuPaul's Drag Race' has really accomplished in such an eloquent way.
Alyssa Edwards
Art
Change
Waiting
World
Remember
Thought
Become
Think
Eloquent
Way
Something
Remember When
Mainstream
Idea
Performing
Hours
Underground
Accomplished
After
Race
Really
Why
Started
Drag
The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.
Amanda Beard
Conservative
Community
Swimming
Know
Because
Whatsoever
Clothing
Really
Why
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