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My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
Rodney Atkins
Music
Me
Wife
Somebody
Country
Run
Songs
Country Music
Wrote
Always
Up
Grew
Whether
Loving
Her
The chances of getting Townes to like it were very remote. When I wrote 'Til I Gain Control Again,' Townes Van Zandt sort of nodded. And I thought, 'Yes!'
Rodney Crowell
Thought
Control
Van
Like
Remote
Wrote
Sort
Were
Yes
Very
Getting
Gain
Again
Chances
The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting the paint on the canvas, that was not my best time. I didn't like the fact that I had fallen into mediocrity.
Rodney Crowell
Time
Best
Good
Vision
Mediocrity
Best Time
Some
Finest
Fact
Had
Songs
Like
Terms
Wrote
Fallen
Were
Years
Getting
Canvas
Paint
Rattigan wrote some very good plays.
Roger Rees
Good
Some
Wrote
Very
Plays
I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way.
Romesh Gunesekera
Impossible
Berlin Wall
Before
Situation
Down
Living
Thinking
Way
Berlin
East
Writers
Almost
Stuff
Wrote
Deal
Dealing
Came
Were
Wall
Fantastic
Europe
Found
In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.
Ronald Kessler
History
Liberty
Become
Beginning
Tree
About
Obscure
Had
Knew
Attention
Wrote
Call
None
How
Articles
Site
Series
Washington
Street
Below
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
Roseanne Barr
Thought
Way
Could
Writer
Perform
Wrote
Because
Always
Wanted
Then
In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.
Rosemary Mahoney
Life
Events
My Life
Teenager
Mood
Recreate
Likely
Wrote
Wanted
Story
Imagery
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North - a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies.
Roxane Gay
Great
Age
Law
Internet
Assume
Great Britain
Symptom
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Minister
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Martial
Case
Colonies
Open
Prime
Prime Minister
Wrote
Call
Lord
Imposition
North
Satirical
Letter
Internet Age
Britain
When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.
Rufus Wainwright
Life
Work
Love
Mother
Father
Three
Master
Personal Life
About
Songs
Failed
Wrote
She
Mistress
Came
Were
Personal
Your
Using
Elements
Four
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.
Rufus Wainwright
Work
Myself
Day
Space
Made
Thinking
Bench
Would
About
Piano
Hour
Like
Opera
Wrote
Deal
Least
Real
Get
Same
Sitting
Artistic
Just
Movements
Place
Bodily
Regular
Meant
Your
Even
Staring
Keeping
I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics.
Rupert Friend
You
Band
Lyrics
Everything
Write
Wrote
Hear
Hold
Them
Asked
Album
British
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
Rupert Holmes
Plots
Had
Songs
Wrote
Narratives
Lot
Story
Early
Career
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.
Rupi Kaur
Myself
Writing
Write
Powerful
Wrote
Makes
Always
Hear
Needed
I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.
Rupi Kaur
Writing
Remember
School
About
Particular
Wrote
Became
Always
Passionate
Essay
Middle
Where
Stories
Middle School
Moment
People like that I wrote a book - that's cute, but oh, making a business out of it? That's not nice.
Rupi Kaur
Business
Book
People
Cute
Nice
Out
Like
Wrote
Making
Oh
The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.
Ruskin Bond
Love
Heart
Late
Late Teens
Teens
Books
Wrote
Were
Love Stories
Stories
Little
Right
I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.
Ruth Reichl
Family
You
Better
Father
Down
Every
Tell
Table
Never
Know
Wrote
Learned
Came
His
Where
Stories
Story
Them
Farther
Sat
Every Night
Night
I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.
Ryan Eggold
Love
Song
Out
Put
Liked
Wrote
Another
Them
Really
Fun
Lucky
When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting was so bad. I wrote music to compensate for my bad acting.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Christmas
Music
First
Bad
Bad Acting
See
Lawrence
Merry
Fell
Wrote
Because
Cuts
Acting
Rough
Floor
Compensate
I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that.
Rza
Big
Scene
Animation
Wrote
Fists
Iron
Afford
I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
S. E. Hinton
Life
Time
You
Reality
Young
Must
About
Compromise
Write
Adult
Outsiders
Ideals
Wrote
Genre
Although
Up
Get
Young Adult
Against
Interesting
Your
Slammed
I actually like love triangles in books. That's one of the main reasons why I wrote one. I really love love triangles.
Sabaa Tahir
Love
Books
Main
Like
Wrote
Really
Reasons
Why
Actually
By early 2009, tens of thousands of students were watching tutorials on the Khan Academy every day. The software I wrote for my cousins had become so popular, it was making my $50-a-month web host crash. The possibilities surrounding the academy were so exciting that I had trouble doing my day job properly. And soon, I quit.
Sal Khan
Day
Every Day
Job
Trouble
Become
Every
Software
Khan
Possibilities
Thousands
Web
Properly
Host
Students
Had
Tens
Exciting
Tens Of Thousands
Day Job
Soon
Academy
Wrote
Making
Cousins
Doing
Were
Surrounding
Quit
Crash
Popular
Early
Watching
You can spend hours editing an email but send it as if you wrote it in a minute.
Sally Rooney
You
Editing
Spend
Email
Minute
Hours
Wrote
Send
I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
Sam Shepard
Old
Ranch
Had
House
Wrote
California
Trailer
Child
Buried
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