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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
Joel Coen
Three
About
Weeks
Written
Know
Got
Very
Quickly
Means
My first album, 'Englaborn,' was based on music originally written for the theatre. My solo albums, like 'IBM 1401, a User's Manual' and 'Fordlandia,' have also had narratives attached to them.
Johann Johannsson
Music
Theatre
First
Solo
Attached
Had
Written
Like
Also
Narratives
Them
Manual
User
Originally
Based
Album
Albums
I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.
John Banville
Think
Writer
Written
Than
Less
I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.
John Bercow
Written
Supremely
Newspapers
Uninterested
Many
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
John Bolton
War
Responsibility
Think
Enormous
Crimes
Criminal
Way
Security
Threat
Could
Taken
Written
Prosecutor
Because
Court
Command
Up
Discretion
American
Going
After
Rome
Interests
International
Chain
The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.
John Burnside
Work
Time
Mind
Finished
Down
Enough
Paper
Several
Some
Poem
Write
Written
Written Down
Head
Soon
Longer
Clears
Piece
Until
Builds
Were
Lines
Quite
Quite Some Time
Hold
Register
'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.
John Burnside
Home
Old
Dance
Back
Asylum
Response
Area
Written
Scotland
Moved
After
Moving
Old Home
Fife
I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
John Cameron Mitchell
Man
Culture
Remember
Stage
Seeing
Rather
Written
Because
Version
Than
Moved
Being
Really
Plato
For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren't specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even - that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes.
John Cho
Me
Honor
Feeling
White
Consider
Characters
Would
Cast
Had
Badge
Written
Stereotypes
Like
Because
Always
Korean
Were
While
Asian
Then
Meant
Used
Avoided
Who
Even
Originally
Specifically
Playing
Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant.
John Cho
Character
Me
Made
Way
Immigrant
Out
Take
Written
Stereotypical
Because
Real
Were
Lot
Very
Roles
Impulse
Maybe
Being
Wants
Asian
Grounded
Play
Career
Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.
John Clute
Science
More
Written
Most
Genre
Science Fiction
Stigma
Labeled
Escaped
Than
Being
Fiction
Anything
Predictable
Far
Novel
Novels
Professors
Routine
Set
University
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.
John Clute
Time
Science
Innovation
Crisis
Scandal
Constant
Angle
Adopt
Write
Obscurity
Writers
Written
Science Fiction
Continue
Offers
Intensely
Fiction
View
Many
I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.
John Conyers
Before
Meetings
Out
Written
House
Conference
Senate
Being
Either
Cut
Us
Cutting
Bill
Used
Even
Now
Acts
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.
John Cornwell
World
Ethics
Past
Living
Philosophers
Books
Moral
Variety
He
Written
Over
Most
North
Decades
North America
America
Influential
Held
Chairs
Four
Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.
John Darnielle
Writing
Job
Before
Lyrics
Had
Written
Hail
Knew
Stuff
New
Most
Material
New Job
West
Texas
Worked
Orientation
Margins
Basically
For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.
John Darnielle
Man
Tried
Potentially
Songs
Written
Stuff
Obviously
Always
Years
Autobiographical
Different
Who
Keep
Thing
I am dedicated to making sure Social Security will be there for future generations and have written legislation to strengthen the program.
John Delaney
Future
Will
Future Generations
Security
Written
Generations
Sure
Making
Am
Legislation
Social
Dedicated
Social Security
Strengthen
Program
The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures.
John Drane
Life
Appropriate
Ways
Significance
Would
Would-Be
Selective
Written
Gospels
Demonstrate
Were
His
Cultures
Accounts
Intended
Same
Different
Different Cultures
Teachings
Reason
Biographies
Present
Jesus
The written word is everything.
John Drinkwater
Word
Everything
Written
Written Word
Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
John Eaton
Best
Composers
Written
Operas
Well
Very
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
John Edgar Wideman
Me
Women
Relatives
Sense
Way
Ancestors
About
Written
Make
Around
Trying
Lovers
The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.
John Engler
Constitution
Written
Michigan
Current
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
John Fuller
People
Think
Torn
Poems
Anguish
Write
Written
Lot
Up
Them
Then
Such Things
Things
The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.
John Gourley
Man
Mistake
Thought
Think
Saw
Magazines
About
Never
Written
Name
Like
Know
Period
Print
Were
Huge
Up
Going
In Print
Second
I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
John Grisham
Seriously
Lawyer
First
Doubt
Trial
Would
Dreamed
Only
Writer
Never
Had
Written
Wrote
Witnessing
Been
Being
After
Story
Ever
The Globes are voted for by anyone in L.A. who's ever written for a foreign newspaper or magazine. That means, like, Romanian cookery writers.
John Hillcoat
Magazine
Writers
Written
Voted
Like
Foreign
Anyone
Newspaper
Means
Cookery
Ever
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