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I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?
David Sedaris
Love
Me
You
Book
People
Giving
Book Signings
Worn
Say
Bad
Would
People Say
Someone
Never
Part
Attention
Like
Hours
How
How Much
Go
Line
Off
Child
Getting
Oh
Just
Love You
Loves
Much
Standing
Why
Away
That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.
David Shields
Life
You
Conversation
People
Everyday Life
Everyday
Books
Read
Real
Opposed
Get
Why
What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.
David Shields
Today
You
Definitely
Plodding
Write
Written
Read
Understand
Still
Just
Being
Against
Novel
Why
I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?
David Shields
Work
Art
You
Writing
Value
Trouble
Feeling
Bother
Absolutely
Idea
Spoken
Liked
Comfort
Comfortable
Always
Afflict
Afflicted
Then
Create
Should
Measured
Why
Why Bother
Harm
Why did I leave Valencia? Because the club needed me to. I was happy there and wouldn't have left, but the situation the club was in demanded it.
David Silva
Me
Happy
Situation
Club
Demanded
Because
Leave
Left
Did
Why
Needed
Here I was, having done a thriller and a horror movie - why did I have the audacity to make a romantic fantasy? How can I continue to make genre films? Well, maybe I don't want to continue to make genre films.
David Slade
Films
Horror
Having
Horror Movie
Thriller
Well
Genre
Make
Audacity
How
Continue
Did
Done
Maybe
Want
Movie
Romantic
Fantasy
Why
Here
Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable.
David Suzuki
You
Reality
Country
Live
Border
Percent
Vast
Idea
Do You Know
Know
Within
Rock
How
How Much
Lot
Huge
Huge Amount
Snow
Ice
Land
Us
Much
Why
Amount
I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not only must we maintain the current level of consumption, but that it must continue to grow by an exponential factor of 2 to 7 percent every year?
David Suzuki
Country
Year
Live
Every
Humiliated
Must
Percent
More
Only
Factor
Consumption
Feel
Maintain
Demands
Cling
Continue
Current
Notion
Exponential
Grow
Why
Level
People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.
David Thewlis
You
People
Sometimes
Say
Part
Along
Came
Choose
Chose
Why
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.
David Ulevitch
Depression
You
People
Win
Better
Valley
Say
Distracting
Running
People Say
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Higher
Delusion
Make
Sort
Makes
Doing
Ironic
Expectations
Maybe
Just
Stakes
Create
Successful
Hard
Company
Growing
Why
I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.
David Walliams
Kid
Born
Voice
Voice-Over
Obsessed
Obsession
Over
Baker
Him
Sort
Because
Got
Little
Tom
Why
Actually
Britain
I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.
David Walliams
Politics
You
Criticism
Would
See
Because
Get
Want
Anyone
Much
Why
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
David Whyte
Good
You
Fighter
See
Poetry
Never
Sharp
Look
Advertising
Itself
After
Elbows
Manipulation
Used
Why
Street
The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar.
David Wong
Way
Out
Give
Something
Only
Because
Audience
Familiar
Overwhelmed
Get
Theater
Them
Hollywood
Choices
Reason
Sequels
Many
Why
Adaptation
Why am I a closet country music fan? Because I grew up being into rock, and I always thought that country music was, like, something my mom was into. Like, it wasn't cool. It wasn't happening. They were all singing about driving around in their trucks looking for Lulu.
David Zabel
Music
Mom
Thought
Country
Looking
Singing
About
Something
Driving
Trucks
Country Music
Like
Because
Around
Rock
Always
Am
Were
Up
Closet
Being
Fan
Grew
Happening
Cool
Why
You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?
Dax Shepard
Life
You
Car
Only
Jump
Get
Your
Why
Why Not
Chance
I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.
Daya
Me
You
Creative
Side
Sign
Focused
About
Allowing
Excited
Major
Major Label
Make
Because
Always
Hear
Been
Lot
Label
Artists
Want
Which
Decisions
Really
Working
Creatively
Originally
Why
I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.
Daya
Life
Real Life
Relationships
Independent
Out
Always
Am
Real
Still
Very
Get
Trying
Prematurely
Why
Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family's story. That's why I am so passionate about raising awareness, because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others.
DeAngelo Williams
Family
Cancer
Seen
Awareness
Others
Impact
About
Part
Like
Because
Firsthand
How
Am
Passionate
Story
Whether
Breast Cancer
Why
Raising
Why can't I just be a running back?
DeAngelo Williams
Just Be
Back
Running
Just
Why
I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.
DeRay Mckesson
Think
Twitter
About
Always
Friend
Much
Tweet
Awake
Why
I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.
Dean Kamen
You
World
Water
Remember
Thinking
Cold
Way
Consistent
Kid
Complex
Kind
Table
About
More
Both
Put
Glass
Know
How
Amazed
Go
Up
Very
Being
Predictable
Elegant
Why
Watching
I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
Dean Koontz
Life
Dog
Past
Believe
Would
Only
Like
Snack
Past Life
The Only Thing
Explain
Why
Thing
I really like the last three Luna records a whole lot, especially 'Penthouse.' I think of all the records I've done, that's my favorite. I don't know why, really. I don't know why some records turn out better than others. It's not a science.
Dean Wareham
Science
Better
Three
Think
Others
Favorite
Out
Some
Records
Like
Know
Lot
Than
Done
Turn
Really
Whole
Why
Last
I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?
Debbie Allen
Good
Me
Everything
Marks
Tells
Look
Insurance
Camera
Hit
Again
Working
Actor
Why
Need
First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.
Debbie Macomber
Myself
People
First
Beginning
Consider
Drawn
Kind
About
Both
Writer
Feel
Reader
How
Foremost
Very
Endlessly
Romance
Fiction
Which
Interested
Storyteller
Storytelling
Means
Fascinated
Why
Career
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