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If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
Neil Patrick Harris
Me
Musical
Would
Some
Magic
About
Magician
Over
Wrote
Although
Place
Who
Appeared
Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.
Neil Patrick Harris
Jim
Kid
Only
Mail
Piece
Wrote
Fan
Fan Mail
Little
Little Kid
Ever
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
Neil Young
Broken
Old
Wrote
Years
Arrow
Just
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
History
People
Other
Driven
Never
Had
Columbus
Checks
Wrote
Himself
Were
Been
Motivations
Discoverer
The History Of
Exploration
Who
Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.
Nell Scovell
Funny
Me
People
Thought
Long
Think
Once
Top
Harry
Insecure
Scar
Potter
Week
Like
Protected
Wrote
Make
Felt
Praise
His
Version
List
After
Decided
Who
Even
Garry
Early
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for 'True Detective' was one of them.
Nic Pizzolatto
Writing
Pilot
Summer
TV
Detective
Had
Developed
True
True Detective
Ideas
Wrote
Get
Six
Different
Decided
Scripts
Them
Different Ideas
Film
Film And TV
Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.
Nicholas Jarecki
Today
Valid
Aristotle
Instruction
Wrote
Years
Years Ago
Then
Really
Manual
Aspiring
Filmmakers
As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.
Nicholas Kristof
Me
Old
Guardian
Job
Drive
Enough
Local
India
Someone
He
Column
Soon
Wrote
Got
Tiny
Influenced
Old Enough
Newspaper
Who
Village
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
Nicholson Baker
Me
Writing
Assumed
Liberated
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Exactly What
Wrote
Read
Pseudonym
Wanted
While
Published
I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.
Nick Earls
Long
First
Way
No Idea
Had
Long Way
Idea
Wrote
Industry
Story
Then
Now
Nowhere
Publishing
I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us.
Nick Harkaway
Time
Desperation
Wife
First
Needless
Panicked
Extremes
Relaxed
Say
Admittedly
About
Parental
Tender
Casual
Drives
Clearly
First Child
Comedic
Wrote
Well-Being
Accompanies
Child
Center
Which
While
Pregnant
Us
Novel
Her
Draft
After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out.
Nick Harkaway
Myself
Director
Writing
Few
Tea
Out
Wrote
Making
End
Quite
Screenplay
Wanted
After
In The End
January
Then
Brief
Film
Found
Started
Assistant
University
Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.
Nick Harkaway
Entitled
Suitcases
Earned
About
Rather
He
Looked
Witches
Wrote
Him
Terry
Wizards
Sir
Than
Legs
Monks
Dragons
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.
Nick Rahall
Faith
Government
Religion
Constitution
Made
First
Believe
Framers
Clear
First Amendment
Over
New
Wrote
Another
New Government
Erase
Amendment
Intent
Endorsing
Common
Wanted
Public
Keep
Consciousness
I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.
Nick Rhodes
Life
Great
You
Culture
People
Matter
Girl
Before
Think
Other
Out
About
Something
Songs
Great Songs
Come
Ideas
Most
Wrote
Greatest
Said
Real
Subject
Subject Matter
Friend
Left
Duran
Situations
Just
Pop
Pop Culture
Your
Traumatic
Lives
Album
Last
Night
To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.
Nick Woodman
Life
Work
Day
Parents
Personal Life
Back
Seven
Week
Days
Headway
Hours
Wrote
Make
Off
Get
Personal
Moved
Started
I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.
Nicole Jordan
Life
School
Mother
Ending
My Life
Before
High
High School
Except
Never
Had
Written
Put
Wrote
Maybe
Short
Anything
Short Story
Story
I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.
Nigel Hamilton
Daily
Doctor
Wonderful
Unfair
Patient
Once
Churchill
Had
Observations
True
Contemporary
Wrote
Well
Although
Lord
His
Diaries
Questionable
Authenticity
Accounts
Quite
Often
Famous
As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved.
Nigel Lawson
Despite
Minister
Outcome
Prime
Clearly
Prime Minister
Implies
Involved
Wrote
Accept
Sought
Without
Which
Might
Landing
Hard
Letter
Resignation
I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a week, before you get to do it yourself. I just thought I'd taken the ventriloquism as far as I could. My act is so deconstructive, and I'd made all the monkey jokes anyone wanted to hear.
Nina Conti
You
Jokes
Do-It-Yourself
Yourself
Thought
Made
Year
Before
Monkey
About
Week
Could
Taken
Studying
Looked
Wrote
Ventriloquism
Governing
Hear
Times
Get
Just
Where
As Far As
Wanted
Anyone
Psychoanalysis
Far
Body
Act
Four
Start
The first song I wrote was for my friend. She was going through a really tough time.
Noah Cyrus
Time
Song
Tough
First
My Friend
Through
Tough Time
Wrote
She
Friend
Going
Really
I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan.
Noah Hawley
Book
Writing
Down
Would
Lies
Feature
Take
Steve
Wrote
End
Up
Being
Movie
Break
Sat
The movies and comedy that I love the most, even if there are men starring in them, often the men wrote the parts for themselves.
Noel Wells
Love
Comedy
Men
Most
Wrote
Parts
Often
Movies
Them
Themselves
Even
Getting on 'SNL' wasn't just about getting cast. I had written all this stuff in my audition, and I wrote several things that got on the air. But to me, I've never been interested in being picked. So when I do get sent things, most of the time I do pass on them because it doesn't feel like it would be fulfilling.
Noel Wells
Time
Me
Air
Several
Would
Would-Be
About
Cast
Never
Had
Picked
Written
Feel
Stuff
Like
Most
Wrote
Because
Pass
Got
Audition
Been
SNL
Get
Getting
Just
Being
Interested
Sent
Them
Fulfilling
Things
I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.
Nora Ephron
Time
Remember
Hunt
Exactly
Proof
About
Something
Could
Had
Since
Know
Wrote
Course
Because
Least
Been
Years
Up
Forgetting
Where
Things
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
Norman Spinrad
World
Design
Market
States
About
Taking
Over
Piece
Wrote
Because
Just
Biggest
English
United
United States
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