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When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.
Perfume Genius
Music
First
Lyrics
Wilder
Kind
Wrote
Because
Got
Making
Flipped
Now
Started
There was one time I flagged every 'Brokeback Mountain' review on Netflix that was negative. I was, like, 'not helpful,' and I spent, like, an hour doing it, and I wrote a really serious review about it. It's hard for me not to get really sensitive. I don't brush things off like that very easily.
Perfume Genius
Time
Me
Negative
Every
Spent
Easily
One Time
About
Netflix
Brush
Hour
Like
Wrote
Doing
Review
Off
Very
Mountain
Get
Sensitive
Really
Hard
Helpful
Serious
Things
Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.
Pete Best
Best
Great
History
Band
Some
Had
Songwriters
Stuff
Great Stuff
Wrote
Knows
Verge
Were
America
The History Of
Anyone
Breaking
Who
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.
Peter Ackroyd
Time
Example
Think
Fraud
Would
One Thing
Only
My Time
Only One Thing
Feel
Like
For Example
Wrote
Did
Novels
Thing
Wasting
Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.
Peter Ackroyd
Writing
Doctor
Psychic
Believe
Type
Back
Complete
Magic
Tend
Blank
Instance
Soon
Wrote
Geography
Oh
Just
Stop
Being
Again
Them
Full
Believed
Things
Last
I wrote 'Show Me the Way' in the morning and wrote 'Baby, I Love Your Way' in the afternoon of the same day. I've been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!
Peter Frampton
Love
Day
Morning
Me
Breakfast
Baby
Way
Out
Ate
Since
Wrote
Been
Trying
Same
Afternoon
Your
Show
Figure
Ever
I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me.
Peter Heller
Me
Strong
Made
Country
Enter
Carrying
Deliberate
Had
Wrote
Advocacy
Got
Leave
Issues
Effort
Behind
Where
Fiction
Stories
Grind
Ax
It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model.
Peter Higgs
Field
Think
Paper
Visiting
About
Similar
Simpler
Had
He
Wrote
Cambridge
His
Heard
Model
Done
Short
Anybody
Which
Then
Should
Who
University
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
Peter L. Berger
Religion
Mistake
Argument
Think
Other
Our
About
More
Most
Wrote
Underlying
Go
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Modernity
Modernization
I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.
Phil Klay
War
Confused
Try
Way
Characters
Through
Troubled
Abstract
Puzzle
Wrote
Because
Felt
How
Question
Represent
Stories
Interested
Then
Differently
Thing
Things
Started
I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.
Phil Klay
War
Good
Good Job
Job
Tried
About
Write
Wrote
Always
Iraq
Very
Stories
While
Really
Necessarily
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
Philip Levine
You
Yourself
Sense
State
Poem
Wrote
How
Revise
Get
Intensely
Where
Notion
Why
Conscious
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.
Philipp Meyer
Work
Three
First
Half
Before
Apprentice
Took
Rust
Write
Wrote
Half Years
Years
American
Full-Time
Novel
Novels
Published
Two
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
Phillip Noyce
History
Books
Blacks
Feature
Winners
Wrote
Were
Losers
History Books
Whites
I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
Pink
Good
Me
Feel Good
Dark
Made
Teenager
Out
Poetry
Feel
Wrote
Always
Get
I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way.
Pope Benedict XVI
You
Language
Important
Before
Appropriate
Way
Latin
Say
Furthermore
Something
More
Weeks
Write
Know
Most
Wrote
Well
Because
How
Text
Precision
Cannot
Which
Resignation
Two
Two Weeks
I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.
Prabal Gurung
Myself
Me
Facebook
About
Wrote
Off
Very
Wondering
Whether
Tweet
Showing
Started
Careful
I think the fact that Rajamouli sir wrote the character of 'Baahubali' for me has been the biggest compliment in itself.
Prabhas
Character
Me
Think
Has-Been
Compliment
Fact
Wrote
Been
Itself
Sir
Biggest
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.
Preston Sturges
Director
Before
Directing
Had
He
Wrote
Read
Did
Shooting
Screenplay
Script
Regular
Harder
Started
Night
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
Preston Sturges
Me
Director
Easy
Directing
Writer
Wrote
Because
Did
Screenplay
When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives.
RM
Life
You
People
Rare
First
Extraordinary
Lyrics
Melodies
Tried
Find
Some
Something
Cat
Come
Like
Wrote
Up
Very
Themes
Meanings
Special
Serendipity
Lives
Things
I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
Rachel Kushner
Great
Book
Thought
Great American
Mine
Claim
Object
Someone
Could
Written
Idea
Like
Know
Wrote
American
Just
Really
Novel
Now
I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
Rachel Platten
Myself
Character
You
Confidence
Fight
Song
Girl
Girl Scouts
Building
Community
Believe
Other
Else
Above
Similar
Wrote
Scouts
Taught
Being
Declaration
Being There
Each
I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a bus and traveling across the United States. We're starting at Disney World and ending at the Grand OIe Opry. We will be performing at different schools, and I wrote a song for the program called 'Always Sing.'
RaeLynn
Education
Music
Song
World
Ending
Will
States
Week
Performing
Sing
Schools
Wrote
Always
Doing
Opry
Getting
Different
Grand
Bus
Across
Disney
Different Schools
Traveling
United
United States
Starting
Program
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
Rainbow Rowell
Before
OK
Out
Never
Written
Wrote
Turned
Novel
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
Rainn Wilson
Time
Family
Jobs
He
Support
Also
Wrote
Always
Doing
His
Very
Bunch
Artist
Wanted
Frustrated
Spare
Spare Time
Then
Worked
Hard
Painter
Dad
Novels
Ridiculous
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