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“I'll stutter step, then drop the shoulder, a little pump, a little Kobe Game 7 fade-away, and the hooks coming too. And Malcolm [Subban] knows, he's got an inch on me but he can't defend that. He knows that.”

Knows Littles Games Steps Shoulders Fades Inches Hook Pumps Fade Away

Author:P. K. Subban

“As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in a lot of small ways that that wasn't the case. It's sort of a mixed blessing. My mind is like a puppy. It goes all over. I guess writing fiction was a way of harnessing that. I could hook a puppy up to a treadmill and get something out of it.”

Way Writing Mind Kids Young Found Fiction Cases Blessing Hook Puppy Writing Fiction Treadmills Wavelength

Author:George Saunders

“I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.”

Knows Way Ends Feelings Seems Might Community Knowing Sea Grew Grew Up Enlightenment Sick Towns Wings Absence My Way Australia Fishing Gaps Conservation Hook Marine Redneck Dose Spears Hunted

Author:Tim Winton

“Fighters DON'T know how to jab. You take Roy Jones, for instance. He paws his jab. He throws it out, it don't land. And then he'll hit you with a left hook, hit you with a right hand. But he doesn't really know the jab. A guy needs to learn the jab, know the jab, and use the jab. And these guys don't do it today.”

Knows Needs Use Hands Today Guy Left Know How Land Instance Fighter Hook Paws Roy Jones

Author:Larry Holmes

“Melodies are very important in a song. Having a great melody and a great hook. That's what I would always come up with a great melody and that's important.”

Important Song Come Up Melody Hook

Author:Jackie Jackson

“Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question is, 'How vulnerable?' In other words, is it really a problem for us, or is it just a small thing. How do you evaluate racism in America on a scale of 1 to 10? My suspicion is that most blacks overrate it a bit. Not to say it's not there, but we overrate it because this masking is part of our relationship to the larger society. This is a way we keep whites on the hook. We keep them obligated, and we keep ourselves entitled. There's an incentive, you see, to inflate it a little bit.”

Way Littles Stills Ideas Problem America Bits Identity Little Bit Racism Scales Vulnerable Our Relationship Suspicion Entitled Hook Incentives Small Things Evaluate Racism In America

Author:Shelby Steele

“The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.”

Men Ideas War Reality Sex Feminism Media Battle Blame Gender Setting Settings Hook Controversial Handy Battle Of The Sexes

Author:Laura Bates

“When I'm drawing a bottle or a town or a market, I transport myself there. So I start drawing everything that I'm looking at while I'm there. Here's a guy selling the meat, and he will have a hook, and you start adding things, and it's a lot of fun.”

Guy Fun Towns Drawing Selling Meat Bottles Hook Transport

Author:Sergio Aragones

“A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.”

Trying Lasts Hook Bulls

Author:Bette Ford

“I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track. I like my music to be very musical.”

Musical Track Rap Hook

Author:Nellie McKay

“I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it doesn't work out, or if they don't follow your advice, somehow you're on the hook for it.”

Thinking Giving Advice Work Out Hook

Author:Tracy Letts

“The food to me is just a hook, it's a button, it happens to be the social construct and the cultural totem that I'm most familiar with. So of course I built the show around food because it's where I'm familiar.”

Familiar Hook

Author:Andrew Zimmern

“When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.”

Kind Sometimes Action Interest Military Direct Threat Various Hook Persuasive

Author:Barack Obama

“I'm fortunate to have some really great people around me, my fiancee being one, my parents being another. Over the last couple of years, I feel like I've figured out the importance of continuing to learn and the development of the brain and how the brain hooks up with the body.”

People Parent Brain Couple Importance Really Great Hook Great People Hook Up

Author:Randall Cobb

“I think my love of science comes from an interest in wanting to understand the world and wanting to understand our place in it. If I can hook, and reveal, and then, show something, illuminate something about the world, then that's important to me.”

Thinking World Important Interest Hook

Author:Kysa Johnson

“They'll give you an Oscar if they think you're about to drop dead. The problem with The Oscars is, the average age of The Academy is 84. They wheel those people in from Palm Springs and hook up their IVs and they vote. The people that go to movies are under the age of 28, for the most part, so there's this total disconnect between what the Academy thinks is a great movie and what the audience actually wants to see.”

People Thinking Giving Problem Age Audience Spring Vote Hook Hook Up

Author:Joe Bob Briggs

“I write almost everything on my albums, all the hooks etc, but I can't sing them as I hear them in my head. I would struggle to write for just my own voice as it would be pretty limiting on what my tracks are capable of sounding like, so being open to collaboration is crucial for what I do.”

Writing Struggle Capable Track Collaboration Hook

Author:Illy

“Maybe it's easier to have that desire guest-spot-packed album, for example, you're a rapper and you need someone to sing the hook. I guess for us, it just kind of feels like we want to explore ourselves more. That sounds kind of cheesy, but I don't know. I have a lot of artists whose music I have this perfect relationship with, and I don't really feel like I need to meet them or get to know them or write with them because of it.”

Writing Kind Desire Artist Perfect Rapper Hook Cheesy

Author:Yukimi Nagano

“When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.”

Thinking Song Listening Mythology Hook Garage Just Listen Folk Music

Author:Bradford Cox

“I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.”

Thinking Boys Library Teenager Beach Persistence Hook Ramones

Author:Bradford Cox

“It's very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it's only sonic. Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone's attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.”

World Character Attention Focused Cartoon Hook

Author:Billy West

“I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.”

Romance Growing Up Hook Dostoyevsky

Author:Danzy Senna

“Funny thing is, we've never really had a stylist. We had this style, and the label that we're signed to loved it. And I actually thought they were gonna hook me up with all kinds of cool clothes. But they were like, "No, no, no! Your leather jacket and your skinny jeans is exactly what you want." Aww, dude. I thought you were gonna hook me up!”

Kind Style All Kinds Hook

Author:Maja Ivarsson

“I had read the Animal House script, and by hook and crook, I finally got an audition. It was a great one. John Landis followed me out into the hallway afterward and said, "I've never done this before, but you've got the job. Now don't tell anyone!" I've never had a director do that. It was one of those Hollywood-dream-come-true stories. They saw me as a surfer or cowboy, not a preppie, but someone begged and borrowed me an audition, and I went in and got it.”

Done House Animal Cowboy Hook True Story

Author:Tim Matheson

“Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler, he sang on "Fame," he sang for David Bowie, he sang for - whoever needed backgrounds, he would arrange the parts and hook your record up. He also sang on commercials. McDonald's, Budweiser.”

Fame Musician Hook Luther

Author:Marcus Miller

“I think David Yates was just like, "You've got on with it for a few years, I'm gonna let you off the hook." And also, I think it's because the action side of stuff that we were doing, it was going to be very difficult to do all that with all the prosthetics on. It was gonna be hard work, and I think they just said, "You know what?" I think they put a level of trust in me, as well. They said, "You know, we're gonna let Neville Longbottom lose the fat suit, lose the teeth, lose the Adolf Hitler hair."”

Thinking Action Difficult Hard Work Like You Hook Neville Longbottom

Author:Matthew Lewis

“For me, choosing happiness has to be something that's conscious, a choice, something I act on. And I think this is something really difficult in a society where there's this falsehood that there's sunshine everywhere and all you have to do is hook yourself up to it. We're Combodians such an optimistic culture, but sometimes we have to work a lot harder to find it.”

Thinking Sometimes Choices Culture Difficult Conscious Optimistic Sunshine Falsehood Hook

Author:Loung Ung

“The ministers argue that within the context of scripture there's a requirement given by God that you've got to give ten percent of your income to the church. And if you give ten percent - here's the hook - God is going to reward your faithfulness by giving you that ten percent back, and a whole lot more.”

Giving Church Arguing Scripture Hook Faithfulness

Author:Anthony B Pinn

“For me it's the hypnotic simplistic reduction of hooks into some form of prayer wheel or something. I really appreciate people who can work in those quiet environments making really precious latticework like lace in a weaving but, for me, I like it a bit more hairy and like psychedelic Peruvian knits or something! You know what I mean? I go into fabric analogies, you know.”

People Mean Prayer Environment Quiet Appreciate Hook Psychedelic

Author:Tim Hecker

“The stuff that I make and the things that I talk about, you have to listen, so if the beat is doing too much, it's going to take you away. If the hook is too distracting, it's going to take you away. The hook just needs to be enough to get you from one verse to the next.”

Enough Verses Hook

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat right, making everything sound right - you spent a freaking week trying to make it sound perfect, and someone comes along and shoots it down.”

Writing Trying Perfect Week Hook

Author:Eminem

“When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. I take it no less seriously than the band I was in for 15 years; it's just a new place that I'm in. I'm in the Gutter Twins right now and that's what I am. But if I'm a Twilight Singer next year, it will be with no less passion.”

People Mean Passion Chance Twilight Twins Hook Hook Up

Author:Greg Dulli

“There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.”

People Different Care Computer Wave Track Compare Hook Vinyl Hook Up

Author:Beck

“Especially when I first came up here to New York, everybody wanted to hook me up with this guy who's Prince's sound engineer. Almost everybody wanted me to hook up with him and go to L.A. and do all that just because that's the route Prince took. And for a while I was listening to all of that. "Yeah, if it's good enough for Prince, it should be good enough for me." But I mean, that's not the case, really. Prince is a different person than I am. You just got to find the right person for you, whoever you click with.”

Mean Different Enough Guy Listening Be Good Good Enough Hook Right Person Hook Up

Author:D'Angelo

“I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.”

Mets Hook Hook Up

Author:Talib Kweli

“Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.”

Littles Whole Wanted Stars Bits Little Bit Pops Melody Hook Presentation Theatrical Great Music Pop Stars Showmanship

Author:Adam Lambert

“With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.”

Comedy Hook Places To Go

Author:Steve Martin

“I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.”

Writing I Can Song Lines Worry Adults Pops Sensibility Hook Chorus

Author:John Mellencamp

“I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.”

Thinking Done Play Song Attention Knowing Instruments Musical Focused Producers Not Knowing Hook Musicianship Focused Attention

Author:Moby

“A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.”

Men Desire Secret Kindness Gratitude Valuable Hook Hereafter Inspirational Christmas Secret Desire

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!”

Would Be Song Fun Wall Rap Collaboration Hook Off The Wall Rap Song

Author:Taylor Swift

“You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.”

Golf Fades Hook Golfing Golf Life Funny Golf Golf Putting Humorous Golf

Author:Lee Trevino

“If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.”

Ifs Ability Focus Ready Fishes Fishing Concentration Hook Bass

Author:Lee Trevino

“I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.”

Moments Dog Fine Fishes Horrible Scotland Hook

Author:Emily Blunt

“I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.”

Firsts Reason Young Girl Three Voice Company Effects My Friends Bars Making Money Piano Hook Hook Up

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.”

Years Novel Red Years Ago Newspapers Articles Hook

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.”

Games Social Clever Adoption Hook Implementation Foursquare

Author:Fred Wilson

“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing." "Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing." "Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom." "Dark and sinister man,“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.”

Men Long Said Two Lasts Faces Dark Answers Enemy Youth Strange Proud Thee Peter Hook Doom Sinister Insolent Shuddering

Book:Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)

“When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others...life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest...everyone in the world is different, and that's ok.”

World Writing Firsts Different Helping Life Is Values Enjoy Reader Sentences Settling Hook Life Is Short Never Settle Value Yourself

Author:Spider Robinson

“It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”

Thinking Firsts Children Has Beens Made Pain Bits Boys Love You First Time Treated Staring Affected Peter Fairness Unfair Helpless Get Over Hook You Again Unfairness Dazed Treated Unfairly

Author:James M. Barrie

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