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At any filmmaking class, you learn the power of the visual medium and are always trying to minimise the words.
Karthik Subbaraj
You
Class
Words
Power
Medium
Visual
Learn
Always
Trying
Any
Filmmaking
I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
Kate Burton
Me
Words
School
Opportunity
Decision
Made
Few
Drama
Drama School
States
About
Had
He
Tense
Go
Very
Did
Wanted
Central
Dad
United
United States
Britain
British
Speech
I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.
Kate DiCamillo
Hope
Words
Cynical
Hopeful
Find
Structure
More
Write
Am
Just
Children
Different
Sentence
Use
Less
In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.
Kate Smith
Music
Words
Mood
Ballads
While
Them
Meaning
Enhances
Nearly
Set
Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
Kate Smith
War
Buy
Women
Words
Money
Carefully
Other
Voice
Purposes
Had
Because
Been
Which
Aside
Used
Speaking
Chosen
Bonds
Set
I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.
Kathe Koja
Me
Heart
Words
Own
Nothing
Adapting
Added
Please
Rule
Point
Recreation
Text
Author
Gets
Any
Ordering
Story
Original
Appetite
Dracula
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
Katherine Dunn
Me
Age
Words
Language
Trouble
Others
Out
Some
Magic
Since
Got
Been
Discovered
Very
Very Early Age
Believer
Early
Early Age
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Katherine Mansfield
Words
Once
Somehow
Read
Learned
Without
Register
Meaning
Meaning Of
Consciousness
In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't sound the words out, so you can't read street signs or packages in the grocery store! You have to rely on pictures and guesses.
Katherine McNamara
You
Words
Signs
Guesses
Ours
Out
Rely
Pictures
Alphabet
Read
Sound
Bulgaria
Different
Store
Which
Packages
Grocery
Grocery Store
Use
Street
I guess I talk about her because I'm interested; I'm listening. Taylor Swift's words are so valuable to so many young people, not just her #GirlSquad.
Katherine Ryan
People
Words
Listening
Valuable
Young
Guess
About
Talk
Because
Just
Interested
Young People
Taylor
Swift
Many
Her
In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
Politics
Words
Worth
Picture
Thousand
Thousand Words
Picture Is Worth
In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
Words
World
Real
The Real World
Automatically
Real World
Translate
Deeds
I am proud to be called the Queen of Mean, and I never mince my words - especially when it comes to fat people.
Katie Hopkins
People
Queen
Words
Mince
Never
Proud
Am
Mean
Fat
When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time and said the famous words, 'That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind,' he was talking about all of us. Men and women.
Katie Pavlich
Time
Man
Women
Words
Moon
Men
Men And Women
First
Giant
Neil
About
Small
He
Step
Stepped
Leap
Armstrong
Talking
First Time
Said
Famous
Mankind
Us
It's so true: the fight is won or lost in the gym, and those words really stuck with me throughout my career.
Katie Taylor
Me
Fight
Words
Lost
Those
Gym
Stuck
Throughout
True
Won
Really
Career
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Book
Words
Will
Three
Translation
Believe
Spend
Way
Those
Danish
Fact
Write
Journalists
Over
Days
Know
Leaning
Go
Denmark
Survive
Intensely
Being
Want
Wherever
Informs
To Survive
Shoulder
Now
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.
Keira Knightley
Strange
Words
Slow
Given
Read
Reader
Always
Am
Loved
Which
Them
Strange Thing
Actually
Thing
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
Keith Barry
Words
Believe
Other
Minds
Pretend
Read
Anybody
In Other Words
It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.
Kelly Hu
You
Words
Else
Everything
Kick
Worry
Everything Else
Way
Memorizing
Able
About
Because
Dialogue
Go
Up
Depending
Being
Different
Really
Acting
Fun
Whole
Different Way
Butt
Suit
Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
Kelly Masterson
Work
Character
Me
Words
Important
Stage
Playwright
Way
Tell
Someone
Never
Written
Because
Reveal
How
Dialogue
Did
Convey
Teaches
Who
Appear
One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
People
Words
Long
One Of The Things
About
Comics
Linger
Want
Things
Images
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
Ken Follett
Success
Anxiety
Words
Care
Destiny
Must
About
Make
Principals
Reader
Author
Suspense
Sustain
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
Ken Follett
You
People
Words
Aim
Insight
Motivations
Just
Meaning
Much
Notice
No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.
Ken Stott
Music
You
Words
Dark
Stage
Breath
Out
Could
Take
No Words
Beats
Takes
Lights
Come
Drummer
Just
Place
Then
Production
Acting
Your
Moment
Away
Four
Plays
Comedy is here to bring joy to the world, whether you want to hear the curse words or not.
Kenan Thompson
You
Joy
Words
World
Comedy
Hear
Curse
Want
Whether
Bring
Here
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
Kenneth Branagh
Music
Experience
People
Words
Sometimes
Language
Important
Vital
Directors
Offer
Than
Want
Meaning
Themselves
Less
Who
Element
Actor
Actual
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