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I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.
Lisa Gardner
Myself
Worth
King
Met
Embarrass
Worth It
Would
Would-Be
Never
Stephen King
Crush
Him
Huge
Author
Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!
Lisa Jackson
God
Simple
Internet
Example
Out
Characters
Would
Would-Be
Cast
Written
Check
Like
For Example
Look
She
Him
Reader
Idiots
Test
Sake
Were
Texting
Wonder
Might
Acting
Why
Her
Present
Flowers would be wasted on me. I don't like valentines. I don't need gifts. I'm a pragmatic romantic.
Lisa Jewell
Me
Valentines
Gifts
Would
Would-Be
Like
Pragmatic
Romantic
Wasted
Flowers
Need
I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
Lisa Kudrow
Man
Respect
Woman
Thinking
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Could
Had
Part
Attract
Couple
Wanted
Certain
Who
On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.
Lisa Kudrow
People
Otherwise
TV
Would
Would-Be
Network
Lights
Still
Sitcom
Them
Convince
Hard
Bright
Bright Lights
I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!
Lisa Loeb
Work
Complicated
Would
Would-Be
Some
More
Baking
Want
Interactive
I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.
Lisa McMann
Teacher
Best
Day
Class
Young
Defining
Those
All Day
Out
Would
Would-Be
Had
Wrote
Said
Conference
Get
Grade
Authors
Hang
Going
Where
Story
Moments
Therefore
Fourth
I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself!
Liu Wen
Myself
Wonderful
Thought
Everywhere
Would
Would-Be
See
Ads
How
Model
Beijing
Them
Used
I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
Liz Phair
You
People
Independence
Difficult
Typical
Collaborating
Would
Would-Be
Structure
Fact
Songs
Songwriting
Knew
Stuff
Know
Wrote
Known
Because
Sound
Were
Lot
Very
Quirky
Much
Really
Original
The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that would be perfect.
Liz Tuccillo
You
Cooking
Lying
Would
Would-Be
Couch
Perfect
Could
Most
Effort
Expend
While
Should
Cook
When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music, and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours; it was just so cool to me.
Lizzo
Music
Me
Made
First
Saw
Destiny
Would
Would-Be
Seemed
Like
Hours
Sing
Make
Child
Grade
Just
Want
Fifth
Cool
Radio
After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.
Lloyd Alexander
School
Thought
Miserable
Add
Local
Hood
High
Would-Be
High School
Fingers
Could
Writer
Count
Had
Catastrophe
Like
Employee
Robin
Messenger
Robin Hood
Felt
Boy
Sheriff
Dungeon
Bank
After
Subtract
Worked
Barely
Chained
Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience.
Logan Green
Work
Experience
People
Phone
Better
Seconds
Stripping
Out
Carry
Would
Would-Be
Able
Something
Something People
Rethink
Putting
Couple
Forced
Were
Mobile
Us
Create
Much
Used
User
Company
Closing the gun show loophole would be a good thing to do.
Lois Frankel
Good
Gun
Would
Would-Be
Good Thing
Loophole
Closing
Show
Thing
In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.
Lorde
Me
World
Interviews
Out
Photo
Would
Would-Be
Perfect
Never
Perfect World
Any
Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago... they're like rock stars. If there was a 'TMZ' 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.
Lorde
Life
People
Stars
Those
Would
Would-Be
Kings
About
Had
Aristocracy
Like
Obviously
Rock
Rock Stars
Queens
Years
Years Ago
Whole
Fascination
Henry
Marie
Marie Antoinette
I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.
Lorde
Good
Me
Song
Sometimes
Drawn
Would
Would-Be
Something
Could
Write
Writer
Head
Wished
Like
Know
Sounds
Cover
Just
Really
Your
Cool
I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.
Lorde
Impossible
Internet
Think
Kid
Would
Would-Be
New
Because
Coming
New Zealand
Little
Barren
Zealand
My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.
Lorenzo Lamas
Success
Me
Age
Regret
Young
Took
Would
Would-Be
Given
Because
Greatest
Young Age
Granted
Such A Young Age
The only show I ever really wanted to do was 'SNL.' It was some sort of merging of my talent and my metabolism. It suited who I am and what I do really well, though whatever I was thinking it was, it kept mutating and growing. At first, I didn't even know that the cast would be the thing everybody talked about. We thought it would be the hosts.
Lorne Michaels
Thought
First
Whatever
Thinking
Everybody
Suited
Though
Would
Would-Be
Some
About
Only
Cast
Hosts
Merging
Talent
Know
Well
Talked
Sort
Metabolism
Am
SNL
Wanted
Really
Show
Who
Even
Growing
Ever
Thing
Kept
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.
Lorraine Toussaint
Art
You
Opportunity
Naked
Think
Incredibly
Would
Would-Be
Vanity
Art Form
Left
Truthful
Any
Form
Eliminate
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
Lorrie Fair
History
Sports
Women
Country
Before
Fathom
Sold-Out
Would
Would-Be
Knew
Over
Going
Stadiums
The History Of
Biggest
Event
Ever
Playing
All my family worked for Puma. My mother worked there, and my father was the guy that opened and closed up in the evening. We lived in the neighbouring building - just a couple of steps, and I would be in the Puma factory. All 300 people that worked there knew me; it was my adventure playground. I knew everything, even how to make a shoe sole.
Lothar Matthaus
Family
Me
People
Mother
Father
Building
Closed
Everything
Sole
Would
Would-Be
Guy
Factory
Knew
Steps
Adventure
Opened
Couple
Make
How
Up
Shoe
Just
Worked
Even
Evening
Lived
Playground
I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had.
Lou Barlow
Alienate
Considered
Would
Would-Be
Had
Supposed
Most
Audience
Core
If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
Lou Brock
Back
Would
Would-Be
General
General Manager
Had
Coming
Manager
Any
Interest
Baseball
I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.
Lou Ferrigno
Good
Great
Superman
Think
Would
Would-Be
He
Look
Got
Eric
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