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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
Idris Elba
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Actor
Dialect
Interaction
Skills
Certain Things
Page
Prepare
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I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.
Lisa Unger
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Author
Character
Exploring
People
Thinking
Myself People More
Page
Whom
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All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.
David Stern
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Counsel
Joy
Tomorrow
Sport
Front Page
Issue
Newspaper
Page
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I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.
David Lloyd
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Comics Artist
Opportunity
Details
Method
Pages
Scene
Writer
Detail
Marvel
Page
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I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.
Jesse Eisenberg
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Actor
Online
Facebook
Further
Page
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People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.
Gretchen Mol
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Film Actress
Feminist
People
Permission
Thinking
Look People Way
Page
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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
Kara Swisher
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Columnist
Digital
Fax
Phones
Work Home Myself
Cell
Cell Phones
Equipped
Network
Page
Pioneer
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I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.
Billy Unger
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Actor
Aerosmith
Guitar
Gun
Heart
Jimmy
Love Music Heart
Guns
Led
Led Zeppelin
Page
Roses
Slash
Zeppelin
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The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'
Susanna Kearsley
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Novelist
Best Way
Emotion
Reader
Smallest
Expressions
Page
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To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.
Kevin Bacon
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Actor
Page
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If you can build a Facebook page and channel the audience to your website, you can generate revenue via PPC advertisement networks like Google Adwords, Taboola, Yahoo! Bing Network, AdRoll, 7Search, etc.
Fabrizio Moreira
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Etc
Revenue
Website
Advertisement
Bing
Channel
Facebook
Generate
Network
Page
Via
Yahoo
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I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages.
Brian Selznick
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Illustrator
Disappear
Pages
Turning
Wild
Move Forward
Page
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I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.
Tracy K. Smith
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Poet
Different Times
Life Thinking My Life
Journals
Notebooks
Page
Parse
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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Writer
Fire
Great American
Pages
Superb
Writing
Cave
Page
Send
Throw
Utterly
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My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.
Tom Bissell
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Journalist
Dna
Nonfiction
Prose
Texture
Fictional
Page
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There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends.
Geoff Johns
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Comic Book Writer
Comic
Green
Tension
Arrow
Lantern
Page
Same Page
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When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.
Joanna Scott
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Reading
Share
Across
Descriptions
Page
Private
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There are other people who think they know everything and it goes back to the same formula, but I'm not with them. I'm not the same as everyone else and every single day I'm writing a new page in history.
Giggs
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History Day People
Every Single Day
Everyone Else
Formula
Page
Single Day
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When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.
Bruno Maag
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Aim
Rhythm
Scripts
Sympathetic
Texture
Ideally
Page
Tonal
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When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.
Alison Owen
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Convince
Literal
Writers
Particularly
Necessarily
Page
Screen
Specifically
Truthfully
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In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'
Daniel Tammet
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Writer
Ink
Numbers
Texture
Mind Me Words
Page
Young Child
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
Sadie Jones
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Writer
Garden
Imagine
Shed
Cathedral
Moment
Page
Start
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I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.
Matt Bomer
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Actor
Bathroom
Wall
History Your Me
Biography
Chose
Hide
Magazine
Page
Putting
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Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.
Natasha Leggero
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Actress
Good People Win
Live Shows
More People
Page
Strangers
Same Page
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The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.
Graham Swift
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Film Writer
Flow
Ink
Margin
Page
Pen
Quick
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A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends a certain immediacy and understanding that is hard to get on the page.
Lawrence Wright
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Author
Able
Certain
Film
Hard
Helping
Helping People
Immediacy
Involved
Great People See
Great People Way
Understand
Documentary
Documentary Film
Great Way
Lends
Page
Somehow
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When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
Jane Smiley
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Novelist
Book
Delight
Pages
Reader
Delights
Intensely
Page
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The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas.
Whit Stillman
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Writer
Bad Ideas
Blank
Horrible
Horrible Things
Lame
Blank Page
Deciding
Scenes
Page
Worst Thing
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On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.
Adrian Mckinty
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Novelist
Belfast
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Wikipedia
Located
Northern
Page
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This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.
Paulo Coelho
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Lyricist
Dialogue
Different
Idealistic
Little Bit
People
Sound
World May People
Account
Twitter
Blog
May World People
Different People
Establish
Facebook
Page
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Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.
Terry Teachout
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Critic
Rewriting
Complexities
Myriad
Page
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Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?
Jerry Spinelli
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Writer
Don't Care
Reader
Best Yourself Your
Touch
Do Your Best
Page
Reach
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You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.
James Daly
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Film Actor
Complaining
Pages
Remember When
Month
Magazine
Page
Putting
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The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Film Director
Alone
Blank
Cinema
Mean
Teamwork
Ask
Answer
Questions
Does
Before
Blank Page
Craft
Set
Films
Page
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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
Jack Bowman
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Book
Long
Old Books
Pages
Stories
Touched
Use
Old
Each
Finger
Held
Page
Tell
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I absolutely loved Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and didn't want it to end. It's hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy.
Sheryl Sandberg
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Businesswoman
Fey
Highlighting
Page
Tina
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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
Jim Jarmusch
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Film Director
Miles
Poignancy
Davis
Affecting
Forms
Liking
Page
Text
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Especially in today's age, when you're in the huddle with guys from all different backgrounds and all different ages, you have to be able to lead, get everybody on the same page, and do what it takes to win.
Will Grier
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Backgrounds
Different Ages
Ages
Guys
Page
Same Page
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For 500 years after Gutenberg, the dominant form of information was the printed page: knowledge was primarily delivered in a fixed format, one that encouraged readers to believe in stable and settled truths.
Katharine Viner
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Knowledge
Dominant
Fixed
Form
Gutenberg
Information
Stable
Delivered
Encouraged
Page
Primarily
Readers
Settled
Truths
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The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
Ann Coulter
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Commentator
New York
Answers
Gun
Gun Control
Higher
Matter
New York Times
Political
Speech
Taxes
Three
Control
Board
Editorial
Times
Higher Taxes
Page
Political Speech
Question
Restrictions
Stricter
York
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If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
Jodi Picoult
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Author
Commentary
Guarantees That
Reading
Writing
Good People Will
Good Keep People
Guarantee
Page
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And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.
Arthur Rock
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Businessman
Announcing
Ibm
Newspapers
Ad
Apple
Behold
Chip
Double
Intel
Manufacture
Page
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I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.
Mark Hamill
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Actor
Acceptable
Book
Comic
Numbers
Pages
Printed
Translate
Comic Books
Easiest
Filmmakers
Meaning Of
Page
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A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page.
Keri Smith
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Author
Blank
Journal
Beautifully
Blank Page
Journals
Page
Understandable
Wreck
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I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It's why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It's why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page.
Robert Scoble
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Blogger
Gates
Larry
Bill Gates
Meeting
Page
Steve
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There are things that start small on Reddit, then they sort of gather and become major trends. Having said that, I mostly stay on the Top 100 page, so it's mostly just pictures of a dog looking like Chewbacca.
Neal Brennan
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Comedian
Reddit
Gather
Major
Mostly
Page
Pictures
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My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.
Phil Foglio
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Cartoonist
Character
Fighting
Hands
Naturally
Explosion
Page
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
Hari Kunzru
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Novelist
Library Research
Pages
Writing
Onto
Page
Rarely
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I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.
Chester Brown
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Cartoonist
Book
Cheaper
Comic
Format
Giving
Thinking
Dollar
Onto
Pack
Page
Readers
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The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.
Nick Rahall
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U.s. Representative
Administration
Book
Obscene
Play
Years
Announcement
Energy Plan
Oil Company
Page
Profits
Reduce
Regulate
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