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The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.
Nancy Kress
Work
Ending
Problems
Tremendous
Say
Carry
Someone
Weight
Failed
Like
Most
Also
Readers
Does
How
Editors
Question
Friend
End
Submitted
Endings
Short
Common
Movie
Short Story
Story
Works
Novel
Chances
Ritesh Deshmukh is rock star. He has a lovely family. He works so hard, and he's a great actor. He's funny, friendly, doesn't have an ego, and is so nice to everyone. He's a fine professional, a good husband, and a good father. That's a rock star for me.
Nargis Fakhri
Funny
Good
Great
Family
Me
Ego
Father
Husband
Nice
Everyone
Fine
He
Rock
Rock Star
Friendly
Lovely
Hard
Professional
Works
Star
Actor
Good Father
Good Husband
Great Actor
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
Natasha Lyonne
Life
Experience
See
Absurdity
Most
Always
How
Situations
Works
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
Nathan Fillion
Finance
Art
Needs
Nature
You
Entertainment
You Can Do It
Yourself
Money
Internet
Will
Beast
Own
Believe
Our
Out
TV
TV Show
Network
Put
Until
Industry
Becomes
How
Go
Source
Want
Your
Show
Works
Things
Watch
The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.
Neale Donald Walsch
Life
Truth
Spiritual
World
Starving
New
End
Sustaining
Works
Brings
Whether it's a double take or a spit take or an extra-long pause before a reaction or a line, I try to be as cognizant as possible about the technical end of it. So I think the physical stuff works easier for me than maybe for others who are more just going on instinct.
Neil Patrick Harris
Me
Try
Before
Think
Others
Easier
Possible
Physical
About
More
Spit
Take
Instinct
Stuff
Reaction
Line
End
Than
Going
Maybe
Just
Whether
Double
Pause
Who
Works
Technical
Cognizant
The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works in a much more exploratory way. It is aware of all the possibilities at once and trying them out all the time. That is a hard thing to picture.
Neil Turok
Time
World
Light
Made
Picture
Waves
Once
Way
Definite
Possibilities
Out
More
Instead
Particles
Existence
Up
Trying
Them
Much
Hard
Hard Thing
Works
Aware
Thing
I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science
Think
Those
Claim
Prone
Somehow
Simply
Understand
How
Scientists
Did
Just
Clueless
Less
Who
Works
Assert
We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.
Nestor Kirchner
Few
Everyone
Kind
Must
Globalization
Just
Create
Works
I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people's is: If it works, great. If you're serious and legitimate about it and know what you're looking for, then from what I hear, it's definitely effective.
Nev Schulman
Great
You
Experience
People
Websites
Feeling
Looking
Definitely
About
Dating
Toward
Know
Most
Hear
Effective
Very
Legitimate
Little
Then
Works
Serious
I'm definitely a person who works well under pressure.
Nia Jax
Pressure
Definitely
Well
Person
Who
Works
Actors don't request what scenes to be written in. That's just not how it works.
Nicholas Gonzalez
Scenes
Written
How
Just
Request
Works
Actor
I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.
Nicholas Winton
Life
You
Yourself
Events
Matter
Life Is A
Nothing
Respond
Easily
Out
Outside
Arranged
Very
Works
Chance
First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.
Nicholson Baker
Love
You
First
Way
Criticisms
Kindle
Read
Problematic
Want
Should
Ignore
Works
The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.
Nick Cave
You
People
Made
Way
Possibly
Something
Could
Idea
Involved
Get
Wanted
Hollywood
Works
Ever
Thing
Last
Chance
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
Nick Cave
You
Immediate
Scene
Write
Works
There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That's a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few.
Nick Harkaway
Writing
Will
Few
Benefit
Shame
Could
Most
Because
Nor
Suspect
Modern
Fiction
Many
Wary
Works
Novel
Serious
Including
Novelists
Now
Ever
I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.
Nick Kroll
Work
You
Joke
Force
Make
Premise
Works
Found
In, like, seventh or eighth grade every day after school, my friend Andrew and I would watch 'Wayne's World.' And I think it's a great example of a sketch effectively turned into a movie and a story that really works with a good journey. Not easily accomplished, but such a good journey.
Nick Kroll
Good
Day
Great
Journey
Every Day
World
School
Example
Every
Think
Seventh
Great Example
Wayne
Easily
Andrew
Would
My Friend
Like
Accomplished
Friend
Effectively
Grade
Movie
Eighth
After
Eighth Grade
After-School
Story
Sketch
Turned
Really
Works
Watch
I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it's not to keep trying to be the best. That's not necessarily human nature.
Nick Saban
Time
Best
Nature
You
Win
National
Human Nature
Think
Bonus
Month
Say
Some
Throughout
Cruise
Well
Got
Go
National Championship
Off
Get
Trying
Did
Human
Where
Quota
Your
Team
Works
Keep
Now
Necessarily
Championship
There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
Love
Saying
Fashion
People
Sense
Furniture
Purest
Never
Term
Piece
How
Understood
Worked
Products
Who
Grasped
Works
Keep
Actually
I really like Beyonce. She's a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.
Nicole Byer
Every
Perfectionist
Performance
Like
Beyonce
She
Really
Hard
Who
Works
Each
My travel plans are always sudden. But that always works out better because it ends up being more spontaneous.
Nikita Dutta
Travel
Better
Out
More
Spontaneous
Because
Always
Up
Being
Ends
Plans
Works
Sudden
To experiment different kinds of roles always works well.
Nikita Dutta
Experiment
Different Kinds
Kinds
Well
Always
Roles
Different
Works
People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.
Nikki Reed
Hate
People
World
Nothing
Everyone
Way
Mail
Send
Special
Works
Now
Right
I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.
Nikolai Gogol
Me
Others
Everything
Immature
Guilty
Distress
Brought
Pardon
General
Attack
Towards
Openly
Know
Been
Provoked
Which
Them
Ask
Produced
Many
Works
Even
Displeasure
Here
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