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I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.
Dave Eggers
Me
Tears
Reading
Few
Think
Everything
Bored
Stayed
Postmodern
About
Purposely
Written
Most
Read
Very
Any
Just
Anybody
Much
Theory
Away
You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the songs you've written into a completely different direction, because there's nothing more boring than going to the studio and predictably knowing what is going to happen.
Dave Gahan
Work
You
People
Inspire
Nothing
Boring
Direction
More
Take
Songs
Studio
Written
Put
Knowing
Because
Around
Got
Than
Going
Different
Happen
Interesting
Interesting People
Gonna
Who
The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.
Dave Mustaine
God
First
Had
Written
Over
Over It
Very
The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.
Davey Havok
People
Too Much
Too
Say
Out
Freak
Mail
Written
Blood
Send
Fan
Fan Mail
Us
Much
Who
Nicest
Things
Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.
Davey Havok
Books
Written
Most
Narrative
First-Person
Historically
Speaking
Connect
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?
David Benioff
Beautiful
You
Book
Better
Reward
Job
Long
Every
Philosophy
Would
Boring
Some
More
Written
Prose
Study
Most
Island
Were
Been
Existential
Than
Stranded
Desert
Desert Island
Ever
Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes naturally to me. A lot of my music is like that.
David Berman
Music
Me
Song
Words
Odds
Once
Written
Like
Yeah
Lot
Just
Naturally
Profile
After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.
David Einhorn
Government
Economics
Type
Out
Economic
Written
Almost
Undergraduate
Go
Very
Get
Department
Wanted
After
Interested
Turned
Thesis
Largely
I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.
David Friedman
Love
Me
Sadness
Year
Difficult
Extremely
Several
Out
Has-Been
Some
Songs
Written
Came
Been
Personal
Intense
Which
Them
Really
Deeply
When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds.
David Hallberg
Best
History
Learning
Language
Living
Worlds
Took
Immersed
Adjust
Never
Had
Written
Moscow
Felt
Tradition
Lots
Friends
Get
Being
Different
Experienced
Lake
Which
While
Swan
Now
Different Worlds
Two
History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.
David Hepworth
Life
Daily
History
Live
Those
Tend
Written
Longest
Victors
Who
Daily Life
Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.
David Hepworth
Moody
People
Song
Made
White
Nights
Teenager
Brought
Girlfriend
Had
He
Written
Him
His
Lot
Subsequently
Blues
Which
Justin
Fortune
Satin
Drafted
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
David Levithan
Love
You
Writing
Words
Own
Else
Would
Someone
Something
Fact
Never
Written
Bouncing
Off
Get
Story
Your
Ever
Guarantees
With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.
David Morse
Danger
Penn
He
Written
Likes
Although
Surprised
Want
Wants
Acting
Sean
Sean Penn
Necessarily
I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link.
David Morse
Work
Great
Science
First
Stage
Sense
Christopher
TV
Had
Written
Ray
Ray Bradbury
Couple
Science Fiction
Prototype
Link
Times
Did
Famous
Fiction
Movie
Created
Team
Who
Including
Film
Actor
Film Actors
Ever
Chance
'The Fighter' was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.
David O. Russell
Family
Son
Sometimes
Overcome
Fighter
Fighting
Other
Back
Mood
About
Struggling
Had
Written
Because
Which
Script
Disorder
Initially
Each
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
David Ogilvy
You
People
Spent
Out
Written
Headline
Read
Dollar
Five
Times
Eighty
Cents
Average
Body
Your
Many
Copy
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
David Sedaris
You
People
Writing
Humor
Older
Think
Too
Sign
See
Written
Stuff
Look
Amateur
Lot
Trying
Hard
I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravitated towards literary nonfiction, or lyric essay or poetic essay, whatever you want to call it, I'm constantly beating my head against the wall 'cause I'm teaching a genre that's no longer that exciting to me and that I'm no longer practicing.
David Shields
Work
Me
You
Cause
Three
Whatever
Lyric
Constantly
Poetic
Writer
Beating
Had
Written
Head
Exciting
Towards
Longer
Genre
Call
Practicing
Nonfiction
Began
Wall
Essay
Want
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Literary
Against
Teaching
Novels
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 could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.
David Thewlis
Art
Jealousy
Me
World
Others
Some
About
Struck
Could
Write
Written
Talent
Course
Frequent
Just
Reason
Belief
Film
Film World
I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.
David Thibodeau
Me
Guitar
Looking
Band
Christian
Back
Kind
Religious
Join
David
Written
Drum
Drum Set
Steven
Messiah
Said
Were
Handed
Any
Wanted
Center
Which
Scripture
Asked
Productions
Play
Card
Thing
Last
Set
Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.
David Weinberger
Knowledge
Made
Everybody
Books
Though
Seem
Network
Written
Individuals
Like
Because
Within
Always
Understood
Often
Social
Working
Product
Even
There's been a lot of lies written about me.
Davinia Taylor
Me
Lies
About
Written
Been
Lot
I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.
Daya
Teacher
Song
Hide
First
Met
Organic
Took
Those
Pretty
Voice
Through
Writer
Had
Songs
Written
Songwriting
Invited
New
Got
Rep
Off
Label
Hit
Pittsburgh
Then
Who
Radio
Away
Played
Start
Started
Session
The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw up in your mouth' kind of moment. And it's not, like, their fault, you know? It's not the writers' fault. But if was my world, there would be no written promos; there'd be no scripts.
Dean Ambrose
Time
Me
You
World
Fault
Somebody
First
Mouth
Paper
Kind
Would
Promo
Would-Be
Throw
Writers
Written
Like
Know
Sheet
First Time
Handed
Up
Scripts
Your
Moment
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