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'Where The Wild Things Are,' I think I could have written on my own. When I brought Dave Eggers on, I already had 60 pages of notes. I technically could have, but I don't think I was ready to. I needed him to be there and help me.
Spike Jonze
Me
Technically
Own
Think
Wild
Brought
My Own
Dave
Could
Had
Written
Him
Ready
Where
Notes
Pages
Help
Things
Needed
My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.
St. Lucia
Positive
Sad
Time
Myself
You
Happy
Quality
Somewhere
Favorite
Out
Take
Had
Written
Feels
Pieces
Always
Same
Same Time
Where
Nostalgic
Either
Them
Transporting
Moment
It's pretty rare that something I've written is close to something that's pre-existed.
St. Lucia
Rare
Pretty
Something
Written
Close
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.
Stanley Crouch
Day
Every Day
Writing
Every
Thinking
Definitely
Phrase
About
Something
Written
Head
Like
How
Want
Now
Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.
Stanley Hauerwas
Myself
Learning
Reading
Vice Versa
Christian
Write
Written
Also
Read
Exercise
How
Versa
Being
Vice
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.
Stanley Hauerwas
War
Reality
Think
Tried
Could
Had
He
Written
Well
Truthfully
Stories
Avoid
Lewis
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
Stephen Ambrose
Best
Men
About
Studied
He
Written
American
Eisenhower
Century
Choice
Brightest
I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.
Stephen Greenblatt
Good
Will
Thought
Long
Enough
Relatively
Way
Find
Small
Written
Academic
Content
Audience
Audiences
Been
Years
Provided
Eventually
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!
Stephen Greenblatt
Life
Love
You
My Life
Own
Thinking
Spent
Though
About
My Own
Having
Spitting
Written
Know
Soup
His
Just
Anything
Even
Biography
To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.
Stephen Henderson
You
People
Seen
More
More People
Written
Since
Than
Where
Film
Play
If they say they don't like the way I play Beethoven, then I can swallow that, and maybe they're right. But if they don't like what I've written, then it's about me.
Stephen Hough
Me
Way
Say
About
Written
Like
Beethoven
Maybe
Swallow
Then
They Say
Play
Right
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Stephen Sondheim
Musical
Written
Comedies
Rewritten
Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.
Stephen Sondheim
Matter
Approaching
Single
Before
Doubt
Every
Everybody
Project
Paper
Composed
Faces
Blank
Written
New
Piece
Painted
Imagine
Every single song I've ever written is sung by a character created by somebody else. Some might have a jaundiced view of love, some don't. But none of these songs is me singing - not a single one.
Stephen Sondheim
Love
Character
Me
Song
Somebody
Singing
Single
Every
Else
Sung
Some
Songs
Written
None
Might
Created
View
Ever
Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.
Stephen Wolfram
Change
First
Say
Run
Written
Maintain
Well
First Thing
Without
Version
Any
The First Thing
Converted
Notebook
Worked
Hard
Compatibility
Thing
Earlier
Program
When laws are literally written now to make donors happy, we've got a problem.
Steve Bullock
Happy
Problem
Laws
Written
Make
Got
Donors
Literally
Now
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.
Steve Erickson
Best
Year
Playwright
Though
Sundance
Mad
Fingers
Directed
Through
Tour
Written
Talk
Nominee
Terrific
Were
End
Donald
Max
James
Film
Among
Watched
Pulitzer
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
Steve Martin
You
Book
Style
Own
Down
Way
Out
Kind
Would
Some
My Own
Records
Pick
Songs
Written
Picking
Learned
How
Persevered
Get
Banjo
Tune
Note
Worked
Who
Pete Seeger
Play
Basic
Earl
Playing
History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
Steve Rushin
History
About
Winners
Written
Just
Them
The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things.
Steve Rushin
Bible
World
Argument
Precepts
Down
Top
Introduced
Tablets
Onto
Written
New
Moses
Most
Also
Mount
Stone
List
Just
Enduring
Format
Conveyed
Who
Ever
Things
Starting
Set
Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
Steve Scalise
Bible
Constitution
Important
Think
Written
Most
Document
The Most Important
Next
Ever
Sadly, marriage has become a punchline in today's society. From referring to the wife as 'the old ball and chain' to nearly every poorly written sitcom that we watch, the message we're sending to today's generation is clear... Marriage = no fun.
Steven Crowder
Today
Marriage
Generation
Old
Wife
Become
Every
Society
No Fun
Written
Clear
Sadly
Message
Ball
Referring
Sitcom
Sending
Poorly
Fun
Chain
Nearly
Watch
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.
Steven Erikson
Life
Experience
Worth
Own
Extricate
Life Experience
Ongoing
Written
Idea
Conceit
Tale
His
Very
Author
Being
Little
Her
Believe it or not, there are some things that I have written that would be kind of a dream to make. Hopefully, I will get to finance them... There is something that I wrote called 'Demon's Flare' which would kind of be a dream come true.
Steven Seagal
Finance
Be Kind
Will
Believe
Kind
Dream
Hopefully
Would
Would-Be
Some
Some Things
Something
Written
True
Come
Wrote
Make
Demon
Get
Flare
Which
Them
Things
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.
Stevie Wonder
Me
You
People
Song
Say
Favorite
Would
Composition
Songs
Written
Like
Know
Most
Him
Occasions
Because
Always
Duke
Duke Ellington
His
Different
Quote
Ask
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.
Story Musgrave
You
Space
Embedded
Poems
Poetic
Poetry
Written
Prose
Look
Read
Within
Ultimate
Being
Form
Appears
Techniques
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