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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
Rainn Wilson
Science
Parents
Big
Living
Had
Wrote
Science Fiction
Oil
Fiction
Bohemian
Painted
Paintings
Dad
Novels
Seattle
Mural
Last
I was witness to a beautiful relationship between cricketer Anil Kumble and a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy. Moved, I wrote 'Spin' - a small film about a cricketer and a spastic boy. But I couldn't find backing.
Rajiv Menon
Beautiful
Relationship
Suffering
Witness
Backing
Find
Spin
About
Small
Between
Wrote
Boy
Moved
Film
Muscular
I wrote 'Kshana Kshanam' with the one and only purpose of impressing Sridevi. 'Kshana Kshanam' was my love letter to her.
Ram Gopal Varma
Love
Only
Purpose
Wrote
Letter
Her
I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
Ramez Naam
Technology
Science
Book
First
About
More
Write
Towards
Wrote
Non-Fiction
Science Fiction
Always
Been
Brain
Lot
Than
Human
Fiction
Decided
Fascinated
I'm usually pretty good at remembering the melodies that I wrote.
Ramin Djawadi
Good
Melodies
Pretty
Pretty Good
Remembering
Wrote
One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Love
Teacher
Me
Class
Writing
Made
First
Reading
Own
My Own
Write
Had
Attempts
Bound
Wrote
Read
Permitted
Version
Grade
Novel
Serious
There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
Randy Houser
Love
Music
Best
Day
People
Try
Fans
Care
Job
Big
Whatever
One Day
Something
Between
Wrote
Make
Big Difference
dont Care
Get
Difference
Whether
Who
Now
Right
Cards
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
Randy Newman
People
Looking
Back
Mail
Wrote
Am
Overlooking
Any
Viagra
Even
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
Randy Newman
Better
Consistency
Pleased
Worse
About
Songs
Particular
Most
Wrote
Years
Years Ago
Decline
Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.
Ravi Shankar
Music
Myself
Musicians
Think
Other
Everything
Saw
Composed
Record
All-Time
Only
Inspiring
Along
Hours
Most
Spontaneously
Wrote
Within
Spot
Done
Anywhere
Film
Four
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
Ray Bradbury
First
Mars
About
Wrote
Were
Stories
Landing
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
Ray Walston
Director
Book
Think
Would
Cases
Guy
Like
Wrote
Makes
Difference
Screen
Actor
Adapted
I was lucky to have made it to 23 before my world fell apart, but when it did, I had no idea how to survive. It was a rough year. I cried - a lot. I complained - a lot. I also wrote - a lot.
Rebecca Serle
World
Made
Year
Before
Cried
No Idea
Had
Idea
Fell
Also
Wrote
How
Lot
Survive
Did
Apart
To Survive
Lucky
Rough
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.
Rebecca Traister
Service
Marriage
Women
Losing
Husband
Single
Medicine
Benefit
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Ways
Kids
Plenty
Born
About
Scary
Having
Involved
Wrote
Without
Were
Lot
Modern
Often
Being
Children
Pace
Autonomy
Century
Your
Who
Desire
In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.
Rebel Wilson
Few
Characters
TV
Would
TV Shows
Write
Put
Perform
Like
Wrote
Equivalent
Lots
Australia
Australian
SNL
Different
Little
Them
Then
Worked
Shows
Plays
Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.
Regina Brett
Best
Myself
Family
Me
Cancer
Care
Doctors
Advice
Before
Down
Books
Would
Take
Take Care
Remind
Wrote
Chemotherapy
Friends
Survivors
Owner
Created
Manual
Help
Started
Treatments
A lot of comics fly by the seat of their pants, and they pride themselves on being witty, quick, and off-the-cuff. That's not my show. I wrote a show, and I want to do the show I wrote. I'm not interested in what the audience has to say.
Retta
Pride
Fly
Pants
Say
Wrote
Audience
Witty
Comics
Lot
Quick
Being
Want
Not Interested
Interested
Themselves
Show
Seat
The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.
Rex Stout
Key
Better
Glass
Wrote
Than
Anything
Hemingway
Ever
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
Rian Johnson
Until
Wrote
Make
Movie
Script
Brick
I might have been one of the first 'SportsCenter' anchors that complained that I wrote this great lead-in setting up a highlight, and that as I'm doing it, on camera, the final score is scrolling underneath my head.
Rich Eisen
Great
First
Setting
Final
Anchors
Head
Highlight
Wrote
Underneath
Doing
Camera
Been
Score
Up
Might
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.
Richard Bausch
Me
Will
Thought
Once
Insane
Out
About
Only
Had
Wrote
Go
Up
Ended
Short
Being
Short Story
Happens
Story
Again
Turned
Pages
Novel
Ever
I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'
Richard C. Armitage
Life
War
World
Think
Everything
Rings
Some
About
Writes
He
Also
Wrote
Him
Read
Lord
Lord Of The Rings
His
Loss
Lot
Friends
Very
Close
Close Friends
Hobbit
Experiences
Which
Fascinated
Tolkien
Biographies
World War
World War I
I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.
Richard Price
Book
Judge
Too
See
Ten
Ten Times
Physically
Never
Like
Wrote
Reactions
Read
Close
Times
Accurately
Just
Different
Movie
Screenplay
I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.
Richard Thompson
Three-Quarters
Songs
Wrote
Instrument
Without
Hands
I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.
Richie Havens
You
Yourself
Guitar
Thought
First
Before
Took
Saw
About
Drew
Poetry
Could
Picking
Performed
Couple
Wrote
Years
Up
Escape
Place
While
Then
Village
Express
Express Yourself
Portraits
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
Rick Moranis
Year
Out
About
About A Year
Songs
Wrote
Bunch
Blue
Just
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