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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
Adam Johnson
Character
Book
World
Single
About
Writer
Written
Read
Single Person
Years
Truly
Person
Sixty
Where
Literary
Center
Place
Which
Novel
Imagine
But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
Adam Johnson
Life
You
Youth
People
Rest
Secondary
Aptitude
Kim
Characters
Jobs
Written
Towards
Opera
Opera Singer
Singer
Korea
Opposite
Fisherman
Dictated
North
North Korea
Just
Story
Whether
Regime
Certain
Your
Farmer
Measured
Million
Million People
Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Adam Jones
Time
Out
Songs
Written
Opiate
Came
Were
Many
I've written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally.
Adam Lashinsky
Corporations
Everywhere
About
Written
Repeatedly
Quest
Transform
Themselves
I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
Adam Pally
Love
You
Sometimes
Songs
Written
Cry
Greatest
Hear
May
Stranger
Billy
Billy Joel
Ever
Right
I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.
Adam Silvera
Grief
Adult
Written
Expect
Fiction
I've always written down how I feel.
Adele
Down
Written
Written Down
Feel
Always
How
Sometimes, I sit with my guitar and start playing... something or the other pops into my head... Basically, I write whatever that comes to my mind. I've written a lot of songs, but they are lying in my cupboard... I mean to do something about them someday.
Aditya Roy Kapur
Guitar
Sometimes
Mind
Sit
Whatever
Other
Lying
Someday
About
Something
Write
Songs
Written
Head
Lot
Cupboard
Mean
Them
Pops
Start
Playing
Basically
If it is written in my destiny that I will go back to Pakistan, then I will. I won't be scared of going back.
Adnan Sami
Will
Back
Destiny
Scared
Written
Go
Going
Then
Pakistan
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
Adora Svitak
Age
Youth
World
Word
Awareness
Everything
Hunger
About
Voice
Written
Written Word
Since
Been
Literacy
Exploring
Four
Championing
Raising
It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
Adrian Cronauer
Constitution
People
Sky
Congress
Else
Airwaves
Out
Written
Clear
Said
Blue
Essence
Blue Sky
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Which
Means
Belong
Belongs
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Adrian Edmondson
Saying
Good
People
Pretending
Childish
Doubting
Rubbish
Beneath
Humour
About
Written
Lot
Effectiveness
Gag
Them
Really
Toilet
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
Adrian Mitchell
Best
First
See
More
Poetry
Written
Performance
Read
Provocative
Different
Then
Thing
A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.
Agyness Deyn
Me
Sometimes
Rubbish
About
Written
Stuff
Know
Lot
Get
Where
People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it's one written in a very strange and complex way.
Aidan Gillen
Love
Strange
People
Way
Say
Complex
See
People Say
Wire
Written
Bleak
Baltimore
Very
Letter
I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.
Aimee Mullins
You
Girl
Become
Move On
Gimmick
About
Disabled
Had
Written
Know
Passing
Model
Stomach
Move
Want
Story
Who
Now
Her
Thing
Fat
Come to think of it, even though I've received tons of fan letters and presents from everyone, I've never written anyone back. How rude of me!
Akira Toriyama
Me
Rude
Think
Back
Everyone
Though
Never
Written
Come
How
Anyone
Fan
Even
Letters
Received
Presents
Tons
You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.
Akiva Schaffer
Time
You
People
Better
Own
Laugh
Written
Know
Learn
Because
Makes
Always
Were
Lot
Going
Scripts
Even
Actor
Funniest
Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God; still greater was the love in that it was made known to them that they were called children of God, as it is written, 'Ye are the children of the Lord your God.'
Akiva ben Joseph
Love
God
Made
Written
Known
Greater
Lord
Israel
Still
Were
Children
Them
Your
Beloved
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
Al Franken
Constitution
Way
Evolve
Would
Had
Written
New
Coming
Anticipating
New Technologies
Centuries
Founders
Technologies
Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
Alafair Burke
Love
Father
Reading
Nothing
Worse
Scene
Written
Than
Love Scene
Your
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Alain de Botton
Destination
Valuable
Lonely
Books
Find
Given
Written
Most
Talk
Because
Were
Authors
Anyone
Numbers
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.
Alan Dershowitz
Law
Will
Important
State
More
Prevent
Prevention
Area
Preventive
Written
Concept
Wrongs
Deal
How
Occur
Legacy
Than
Articles
Trying
After
Moving
Them
Much
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
Alan Furst
Conservative
Past
Think
Books
About
Had
Written
Read
Narrative
Been
Just
Want
Them
Then
Novels
Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
Alan Garner
Everything
Has-Been
Written
Been
Same
Room
Chair
Ever
My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.
Alan Moore
Generation
Book
Problem
Fans
Example
Would
Brought
Only
Fired
Writers
Written
For Example
Comic
Comic Book
Were
Pro
Stories
Turn
Paid
Who
Professional
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