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When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
Joe Biden
You
Constitution
Able
Give
Wrote
Him
Forces
How
Commander
Chief
Authority
Intention
Use
The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.
Joe Perry
Buy
Good
You
People
Song
Fans
Will
Some People
See
Some
Good Song
Bottom
Bottom Line
Look
Wrote
Underneath
Because
Line
Hear
Going
Just
Just Because
Want
Who
When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one.
Joe R. Lansdale
Savage
Three
Before
Later
Write
Never
Wrote
Years
Intended
Whenever
Next
Novel
Season
Second
I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote 'Savage Season,' and I wanted to write a modern version of that. I had tried the same thing with 'Cold in July,' and I wanted to give it another go.
Joe R. Lansdale
Savage
Old
Crime
Same Thing
Cold
Spell
Tried
Give
Write
Had
Wrote
Well
Another
Go
Version
July
Same
Modern
Gold
Gold Medal
Wanted
Medal
Novels
Season
Thing
'Flying In A Blue Dream' was quite automatic. I was working on another song, and I took a break and picked up my acoustic guitar, tuned it strangely, and instantly wrote the tune. It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. Usually, when things come easy, it means it's good.
Joe Satriani
Funny
Good
You
Struggle
Song
Guitar
Better
Took
Flying
Dream
Easy
Minute
Write
Picked
Instantly
Come
Piece
Wrote
Another
How
Up
Blue
Quite
Automatic
Break
Tune
Tuned
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Working
Means
Strangely
Things
In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.
Joe Shuster
Great
Freedom
Speak
Great Deal
Before
Beginning
Imagination
Later
Out
Rush
Restricted
Supervision
Had
Freely
Wrote
Deadline
Because
Deal
Editorial
Were
His
Very
Get
In The Beginning
Even
Jerry
Thing
When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.
Joe Torre
Great
History
World
Opportunity
First
Enough
Our
Chapters
Dream
Some
Followed
Winning
Lifelong
New
Wrote
Became
Yankee
Yankees
Were
Years
York
Manager
New York
Succeed
Realize
Fortunate
Series
Season
World Series
I have some fond memories - a couple of the nights on the town ... a couple of songs I wrote when I was messed up that I'm sure wouldn't have come out of me unless I was messed up. It's kind of happy-sad about those days - I could do anything I wanted to. I did. And now I don't want to do any of that.
Joe Walsh
Me
Memories
Nights
Unless
Those
Out
Kind
Some
About
Fond
Fond Memories
Could
Songs
Days
Town
Come
Couple
Wrote
Messed
Messed Up
Sure
Up
Did
Any
Want
Wanted
Anything
Now
I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.
John Battelle
Life
College
First
Year
Back
Typewriter
Mac
Papers
Entire
Guy
Adult
Adult Life
Never
Almost
Looked
Wrote
Freshman
Freshman Year
Been
Years
Years Ago
End
Then
Found
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.
John Cusack
Great
Darkness
Think
Resonant
About
Poe
Misery
He
Part
Instinct
Towards
Great Story
Self-Destruction
Wrote
Sorrowful
Because
Goth
Godfather
Represents
Movement
Wants
Story
Literature
Us
Explore
Perverse
Whole
I wrote 'Lakeside View Apartment Suites' with Roman in my arms. He was about a month old. I was playing left-handed and finally handed him over. On the demo of it, you can hear him crying in the next room.
John Darnielle
You
Old
Finally
Month
About
He
Over
Demo
Crying
Wrote
Arms
Him
Hear
Handed
Left-Handed
Roman
Apartment
Room
Next
View
Playing
When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.
John Dickerson
Book
Tough
Duty
Defense
Secretary
Robert
Wrote
His
Candor
Former
Full
Recent
Gates
I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.
John Edward Christopher Hill
War
Angry
Man
World
Young
He
Wrote
Very
Going
Young Man
Believing
World War
I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.
John Fogerty
Life
Me
Woman
Song
Wonderful
Wife
Singing
Tree
Lasting
Telling
Would
Would-Be
Some
Something
Guy
More
Like
Wrote
She
How
Sounds
Soundtrack
His
Than
Sitting
Movie
Her
Belongs
Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.
John Francis Daley
Writing
Remember
Old
Stupid
Neighborhood
Nintendo
Kids
Promise
Would
Horrible
Putting
Participants
Since
House
Wrote
Years
Being
After
Them
Rehearse
Ever
Basement
Play
Plays
I wrote 'Young Guns' on spec because I really believed that the young age of these guys historically, the whole legend of Billy dying at 21, would attract a young staple of stars, and that would be the game-changer.
John Fusco
Age
Legend
Young
Stars
Would
Would-Be
Guns
Guys
Attract
Wrote
Because
Historically
Young Age
Dying
Really
Whole
Billy
Staple
Believed
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
Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
John Hawley
You
Our
Chapel
Had
Lighted
Anniversary
Since
Wrote
Beautifully
Got
Gas
Last
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.
John Irving
Life
Day
Me
Writing
School
Drawing
About
Never
Almost
Journals
Like
Wrote
Still
Diary
Happened
Notebooks
Landscape
Prep
Keeping
Things
Started
Kept
Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.
John Lewis
King
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Wrote
Felt
Moved
Letter
Early
Luther
By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
John Logan
Time
Job
Sunday
Bats
Given
Writer
Knew
Terms
Wrote
Sort
Does
Dialogue
Any
By The Time
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
John Mellencamp
First
Considered
One Or Two
Only
Records
Songs
He
Couple
Wrote
Cover
Were
Dylan
Bob
Original
Each
Album
Two
'Crumbling' Down' is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything, and the walls were crumbling down on the poor.
John Mellencamp
Song
Political
Walls
Down
President
Everything
He
Crumbling
Wrote
Reagan
George
Were
Friend
Very
Green
Childhood
Poor
They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.
John Newcombe
Wrote
Insured
Moustache
Million
Certainly in the case of 'Kill Your Friends,' a book I wrote more than 10 years ago, I routinely meet interviewers who appear to know the book better than I do. But still, you have to talk about it.
John Niven
You
Book
Better
Meet
About
Case
More
Know
Talk
Wrote
Still
Years
Years Ago
Friends
Than
Your
Certainly
Who
Appear
I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.
John Niven
You
Money
Band
Young
Live
Back
Once
Bit
Folk
Dreamed
Something
Only
Songs
Couple
Wrote
Around
Got
Rent
Dole
Years
Did
Stadium
Loved
Little
Little Bit
Then
Paid
Your
Rehearsed
Playing
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