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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Alan King
Book
Words
Own
Stage
Else
Exactly
Ability
Someone
Absorb
Make
Doing
Story
Your
I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.
Alan Ladd
Time
Good
You
Grateful
Words
Ways
Find
How
Am
From Time To Time
Show
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.
Alan Moore
Music
Day
Words
Try
Listening
First
Back
Lyrics
Way
Adequacy
Would
Cartoonist
Purely
Write
Writer
Had
Songs
Delusions
Pieces
Instrumental
Get
Trying
Listen
Switched
Started
Career
In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.
Alan Stern
Words
Word
Mind
Assume
Other
Enough
Members
Significance
Carries
Alleged
Scientific
Cease
Lacking
In Other Words
Interesting
Public
Planet
Bodies
Planetary
Exploration
Used
Warrant
Many
Describe
I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.
Alberto Manguel
You
Experience
Words
World
Try
Think
Once
Those
Find
Name
Without
Understand
Becomes
Then
Use
Your
Grounded
Who
Suddenly
Imagine
I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Alberto Tomba
Today
Myself
Words
Compliment
Lack
Really
I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not.
Alec Baldwin
Great
You
Business
Creative
Yourself
People
Words
Other
Collaborating
Approval
Out
Seek
Only
Writers
Understand
Audience
Where
Whether
Then
Show
Show Business
Creative People
Using
Actor
Deserve
Started
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
You
Words
Sometimes
Nothing
Heal
Psychoanalysis
Wants
Realize
Speaking
Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.
Alex Chilton
Love
Me
Words
Sometimes
Try
Right Words
Lick
Something
Put
Come
Years
Up
Just
Really
Works
Suddenly
Right
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
Alex Grey
Art
You
Creativity
Words
Poet
Difficult
Think
Unless
Open
Put
Knew
Takes
Make
Artists
Being
Zen
Why
Universal
Flow
In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
Alexandra Fuller
Me
Experience
Words
Thought
Down
Lesson
Ways
Entirely
Written
Written Down
Until
Real
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
Alexandra Kerry
Truth
Great
Words
Stronger
Power
Single
Cumulative
Fiction
Century
Much
Image
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
Alexandra Petri
Words
Shine
Attention
Make
Call
Dull
Sentences
Themselves
Many
Bright
A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but I think if the picture is made in MS Paint, the going rate might be slightly less.
Alexandra Petri
Words
Worth
Made
Picture
Think
Slightly
Rate
Going
May
Might
Less
Paint
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
Alexis Korner
Words
Too Much
Too
Has-Been
Rather
Emotional
Attention
Emphasis
Feel
Been
Than
Blues
Bar
Little
Little Attention
Far
Much
Hard
Originality
British
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
Alfonso Ribeiro
Life
Director
Creative
Words
Amazing
Creative Process
Looking
Enjoy
Paper
Visualizing
Come
Make
How
Process
Them
Really
I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.
Alfonso Ribeiro
Life
Words
Looking
Enjoy
Paper
Visualizing
Directing
Come
Make
How
Truly
Them
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
Alfred Hershey
Words
Better
Language
Sentiment
Mine
Correspondent
He
Put
His
Than
Actually
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
Alfred Korzybski
Alone
Words
World
Possible
Objective
Structure
Only
Between
Obviously
Territory
Linguistic
Link
Then
Maps
Found
Actual
Things
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
Experience
Words
Enormous
Our
Part
Mature
Cannot
Expressed
The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
Alia Shawkat
You
Balance
Reality
Words
Add
Gives
Times
Ludicrous
So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.
Alice Cooper
You
Words
Stage
Down
Live
Other
Our
Way
Cities
See
Performance
Refined
End
End Product
In Other Words
Personalities
Us
Product
Play
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
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
Alice Sebold
Relationship
Experience
Words
Back
Intimacy
Intimate
Someone
More
Open
Read
Editor
Integrated
Quick
Than
Author
Just
Being
Sent
Forth
Page
Engaged
Uses
Unique
Ever
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
Alice Walker
Me
Culture
Women
Words
Word
Black
Organic
Correctly
Out
See
Spirit
Like
Does
Feminist
Just
Really
Describe
Expresses
Now
Things
Need
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.
Alicia Vikander
Queen
Words
Language
Danish
Had
Like
Learn
Learned
Another
Affair
Different
Much
Act
Nuances
Royal
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