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I'm ridiculously proud of my children. More so than any of my books. I suspect I wouldn't have written any of them if I hadn't been lucky enough to have this huge family.
Debi Gliori
Family
Enough
Books
More
Written
Proud
Been
Huge
Than
Suspect
Any
Children
Them
Lucky
Ridiculously
I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.
Deborah Eisenberg
Me
Writing
Desperation
Finished
Took
Mine
Out
Some
Had
Written
Idea
Know
Wrote
Read
Years
Friend
Story
Theater
Really
Should
Monologue
People must have the right to freely practice their religion. It is written in our founding documents and at the core of our values. If you look at my record, you'll see I safeguarded those values.
Deborah K. Ross
Religion
You
People
Values
Practice
Our
Those
Must
See
Record
Written
Freely
Look
Documents
Founding
Right
Core
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
Deborah Moggach
Mother
Father
Books
Bad
Something
Lazy
Written
Suppose
Like
Wrote
Which
Novels
Comparison
The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.
Deborah Tannen
Man
Woman
Women
Communication
Problem
Words
Chill
Will
Down
Respond
Sexes
Tells
Plug
Spine
About
Something
He
Written
Between
Like
Voters
Know
She
Him
Because
Understands
Sounds
Fix
Sends
Listen
Just
Want
Wants
View
Her
Adaptation
I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.
Dee Rees
First
Tool
Marketing
Feature
Had
Written
Short
Short Film
Then
Shot
Act
Used
Originally
Film
Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.
Deepika Padukone
Time
Great
You
Commitment
People
Great Things
Try
Ups And Downs
Sacrifice
Down
Extreme
Easy
About
Through
Written
Also
Untrue
Mostly
Judged
Said
Lot
Times
Same
Goes
Same Time
Ups
Being
Movie
Movie Star
Requires
Your
Star
Downs
Things
Career
Pull
Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.
Delta Goodrem
Me
People
Song
Try
Some People
Gone
Neighbours
Some
Born
About
Had
Songs
Written
Spoken
Well
Overseas
Just
Wanted
Them
Asked
Show
There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.
Demian Bichir
Love
Beautiful
You
Amazing
Separation
Films
Those
Would
See
Part
Written
Well
Well-Written
Go
Acting
Film
Playing
When there's no technical problems, if you did the right casting, and the scene is well written, the actor will give you a strong performance with his intuition right from the start.
Denis Villeneuve
You
Strong
Problems
Will
Intuition
Give
Scene
Casting
Written
Performance
Well
Well-Written
His
Did
Actor
Technical
Right
Start
There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.
Denise Mina
Great
People
Reading
Books
Say
Giant
People Say
Written
Baffling
Nobody
Like
Well
Knows
Always
Well-Written
Children
Happen
Midnight
Code
Why
A very small proportion of the country's black money is in the movie industry. Because we are written about, public attention is focused on us. Do you think there is no black money in other businesses? With the exception of government servants and others who have tax deducted at source, there are tax evaders in every walk of life.
Dev Anand
Life
Government
You
Money
Walk
Black
Country
Every
Think
Other
Others
Focused
About
Small
Proportion
Exception
Written
Attention
Industry
Because
Source
Very
Tax
Movie
Movie Industry
Public
Us
Who
Businesses
Servants
I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, 'I can make something better than this.'
Dexter Fletcher
Me
People
Money
Better
Thought
Films
Sets
Out
Something
Point
Had
Written
Badly
Obviously
Make
Access
Making
Doing
Inexperienced
Were
Up
Than
Getting
Just
Where
Turning
Paying
I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'
Diablo Cody
Me
Television
Television Show
Spielberg
Would
Write
Had
He
Written
Weird
Liked
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Call
Him
Read
Said
Yeah
Just
Script
Asked
Show
Apparently
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
Diana Gabaldon
Art
Great
Science
Great Art
Chaos
Distinguish
Out
Visual
Ability
Written
Whether
Patterns
I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.
Diana Gabaldon
Me
Post
Other
Enough
Sold
Respectable
Objection
Never
Had
Written
Knew
True
New
Know
Also
Read
Although
Well-Written
Reviewed
Times
Get
Did
York
Any
New York
Romance
New York Times
Which
Newspaper
Washington
Washington Post
Round
Eventually
Basically
Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'
Diana Gabaldon
Relationship
You
Women
Word
Mind
Difficult
Bite
Easiest
Case
Someone
Something
Pick
Written
Like
Involving
Sort
Dealing
Sound
Sound Bite
Sounds
Normal
Get
Any
Romance
Whenever
Fiction
Across
Describe
Default
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.
Diana Gabaldon
You
Books
Carry
Visual
Write
Written
Pictures
Well
Understand
Comic
How
Comic Books
Text
Very
Than
Walt
Walt Disney
Different
Story
Disney
Used
Graphic
Novel
Media
I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.
Diana Gabaldon
Will
Long
Written
Well
Genre
Read
Non-Fiction
Well-Written
Fiction
Literally
Anything
Regardless
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
Diane Wakoski
Sometimes
Gender
Out
Poetry
Myths
Written
Geographic
Context
Reference
Cultural
American
Often
Race
Ethnic
Landscape
Origins
When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.
Dick Morris
History
People
Entitled
Some
Pretty
Obscure
Written
Sainthood
Going
The History Of
Century
Who
I came here from Jamaica as a kid and didn't go to school, really, never had a great education. I was a little bit bad on the street, running around, doing this, doing that, and always getting into trouble. I was completely written off, so boxing has definitely saved my life.
Dillian Whyte
Life
Education
Great
School
My Life
Trouble
Saved
Bit
Kid
Definitely
Bad
Running
Never
Had
Written
Around
Boxing
Always
Doing
Came
Go
Off
Getting
Jamaica
Little
Little Bit
Really
Street
Here
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.
Dinaw Mengestu
Best
Reality
People
Inevitable
Sister
Tool
Marketing
Say
Those
Written
Generic
Between
Obviously
She
Well
How
Did
Die
Dies
Autobiography
Difference
Where
Fiction
Happens
Story
Use
Your
Show
Grasp
I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
Dirk Benedict
Books
Say
Embarrassed
Written
Nonfiction
Two
The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.
Dixie Carter
Thought
Prettiest
Written
Were
Just
Us
Show
Funniest
I've written 'Eclipsed' as a funny story. It is completely bonkers.
Dominic Holland
Funny
Funny Story
Eclipsed
Written
Story
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