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'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.
Jason Mraz
Time
Song
Thought
Honestly
Kids
Minutes
About
More
Written
Like
Years
Effortlessly
Anything
Yours
When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.
Jason Reitman
Me
Better
Word
Unbelievable
Casting
Take
Written
Written Word
Look
Make
Am
Been
Than
Worked
Who
Lucky
Actor
Honest
I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?
Jay Asher
Love
Christmas
Me
Book
Love Story
Had
Written
Read
Dealt
Issues
Going
Anybody
Want
Story
Really
Serious
Serious Issues
History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of short stories - you realize it's your interpretation of events that people read, and they absorb that.
Jay Chandrasekhar
Life
History
You
People
Events
Interpretation
Think
More
Write
Written
Absorb
Read
Ultimately
Lot
Short
Screenplays
Stories
Short Stories
Storytelling
Realize
Your
I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.
Jay Chandrasekhar
Criteria
Exactly
Written
Know
Judged
How
Close
Screenplays
Them
Sketches
Set
We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.
Jay Kay
Great
Musicians
Pool
Gave
Month
String
Spent
Backing
Kind
Some
Wright
Written
Like
Singers
Tracks
Arranger
La
Which
Dynamite
Using
The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.
Jay Parini
Old
Seen
Hundred
Hundred Years
Various
Fact
Could
Attempted
Written
Gospels
Demonstrate
Testament
Were
Years
Authors
In Fact
After
Anywhere
Fulfill
Old Testament
Forty
Jesus
I had written 'Cafe de Flore' with 'Stairway to Heaven' in mind.
Jean-Marc Vallee
Cafe
Mind
Had
Written
Heaven
Stairway
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Big
Favorite
Written
Artist
Apollo
Across
Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'
Jean Craighead George
Home
Writing
Word
Before
Never
Had
Advance
Written
Been
Wolves
Julie
Contract
Began
Offered
Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.
Jean M. Auel
Simple
Perspective
Back
Books
Though
Weave
Rather
Fact
Written
Around
Am
Historical
Historical Fact
Than
Stories
Far
Realm
Speculation
If you look at American medical fiction written by doctors, like 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem and 'The Blood of Strangers' by Frank Huyler, both have themes of cynicism and dysfunction running through them that you won't find in 'ER.' You find it in 'Scrubs,' but because that's a comedy, it gets away with it.
Jed Mercurio
God
You
Comedy
Doctors
Strangers
Frank
Running
Find
Both
Through
Written
Like
Look
House
Because
Blood
American
Gets
Fiction
Samuel
Dysfunction
Them
Scrub
Themes
Cynicism
Away
Medical
Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.
Jeff Ament
Bass
Songs
Picked
Written
Since
Up
Ever
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.
Jeff Kinney
Me
Book
Writing
Thinking
Back
Adult
Written
Look
Years
Childhood
Eight
Children
Nostalgic
Informed
Then
Publisher
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
Jeffrey Archer
Life
Challenge
Three
Prison
Think
About
Having
Write
Written
New
New Challenge
Well
Sort
Another
Became
Leaving
Diaries
After
Novel
I feel like, for so many years in the industry, LGBT-identifying actors were told to play small or water themselves down or 'butch it up,' whether you're a male and you're only going out for straight characters because gay characters aren't being written, or you're a woman and you're told to 'femme it up' to play the leading lady role.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Gay
You
Woman
Water
Down
Out
Characters
Only
Small
Written
Feel
Leading
Like
Industry
Because
Femme
Were
Male
Years
Up
Role
Going
So Many Years
Being
Lady
Whether
Straight
Themselves
Many
Actor
Butch
Play
I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.
Jeffrey Brown
Life
Book
Thinking
Back
Relationships
About
Someone
Winning
Never
Written
Like
Always
How
Been
Fit
Getting
Intention
Just
Anything
Means
For someone who has been so important to my career, I have had absolutely no interaction with O.J. Simpson one-on-one in my whole life. I've tried many times. I have written him in prison, I've had other contact ... but he never responded, so I have never had a conversation with O.J. Simpson, never met the guy.
Jeffrey Toobin
Life
Conversation
Important
Met
Prison
Other
Has-Been
Tried
One-On-One
Someone
Guy
Absolutely
Never
Had
He
Written
Contact
Simpson
Him
Been
Times
Interaction
Who
Many
Whole
Career
I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Buy
Great
Creative
Journalist
Starving
Great Idea
Written
Idea
Advertising
Client
Very
Person
Get
Fiction
Frustrated
Working
Creative Person
Even
Publisher
Basically
What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.
Jenji Kohan
Me
Sexist
Something
More
Written
Cliched
Offends
Than
Poorly
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
Jennifer Beals
Character
Other
Writer
Written
Well
Understand
Understands
Up
Oftentimes
Being
Ends
Happens
In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.
Jennifer Egan
Book
Writing
Thought
Before
Few
Other
Way
Write
Written
Still
Squad
Just
Wanted
Stories
Stall
Realizing
Even
Started
Starting
I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!
Jennifer Fallon
Ego
Problem
Mother
Sex
Three
Blessed
Reading
Pandering
Bit
Rather
Scene
Voice
Scenes
Written
Head
Stuff
She
Terribly
Because
Reads
Hears
Impressed
Children
Your
Who
Apparently
Describing
Her
Actually
I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.
Jennifer Haigh
Life
Writing
Remember
Small
Small Child
Written
Child
Whole
What I always think about when I think about 'Girls' is Lena being in a scene where she's very vulnerable, possibly directing, acting, and she's probably written the dialogue. It's 2 in the morning. Everyone's tired. Everyone's grumpy. And she has a smile on her face and kindness for everyone who interacts with her.
Jennifer Konner
Smile
Kindness
Morning
Tired
Face
Girl
Think
Everyone
Possibly
About
Directing
Scene
Written
She
Vulnerable
Always
Dialogue
Very
Being
Where
Acting
Who
Her
Grumpy
When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.
Jenny Downham
Creative
Commitment
Young
Difficult
Too
Gave
Out
Born
Outlet
Only
Written
Road
Always
Real
Still
Began
Up
Child
Manage
Children
Young Children
Acting
Used
Creative Outlet
Now
Techniques
Second
Two
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