“A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained the germ of something good but failed to reach a satisfactory state by the recording stage.” IfsFirstsMadeIdeasStatesUsedSongLeftStuffCuttingStageVersionsGermsMustardNew Songs Author:Bent Saether
“The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.” MayFactsDifferencesEventsStandardsProfoundVersionsSubtleStarks Author:William Finnegan
“The criticisms that are often presented to us by some in the conservative Jewish community about our Palestinian version are: first, that the U.S. is not in conflict with "Palestine" (quotes are theirs) and second, that Conflict Kitchen should counter the Palestinian viewpoints it presents with pro-Israeli viewpoints, otherwise we are spreading dangerous propaganda.” ShouldFirstsCommunityDangerousConflictCriticismConservativeVersionsPropagandaKitchenPalestinianPalestineIsraeliViewpointsJewish Community Author:Jon Rubin
“History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.” FictionToo MuchVersionsGenreTruthfulNon Fiction Author:Jon Weisman
“Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.” SeemsArtistSeaPoetPerceptionMusicianContemporaryVersionsPainterOfficialsAccurateContemporary Life Author:Billy Joel
“English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.” IfsWantBookVersionsToneGet AwayPathos Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.” TryingTwoLanguageMastersAccomplishVersionsServingPreciseTranslationsDoing YouTwo Masters Author:Elliott Colla
“It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.” FunWorstVersions Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“There are so many different versions of "Tennessee Waltz" and they're all so good.” DifferentVersionsTennesseeWaltz Author:Valerie June
“Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we have been pranking each other the whole time. It's our own version of a prank war. We thought we would channel some of that energy into writing a book.” WritingYearsHas BeensBookWarWholeEnergyMetsTenEducationalVersionsWriting A BookMacsPranksNonprofits Author:Jory John
“I always revise when I publish in a book. So versions in magazines are sometimes slightly different.” BookDifferentSometimesVersionsMagazinesPublish Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.” IfsWantWarFightingIraqVersionsAfghanistanLiedIraq WarWmd Author:Michael Hastings
“Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread, into some boring version of what we already know. So what you say is true, in that the bear is a kind of parallel to the speaker, or imagined as such, but also very different. So if it's a symbol it is - ahem - a polysemous one.” IfsKnowsKindDifferentMysteryBearsMereBoringVersionsSymbolsSpeakersDreadParallelsVesselSymbolic Author:Matthew Zapruder
“That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might be the best example of someone who is systematically misread because he can be hilarious. In his poems, as in all great funny poems, the humor is one very appealing version of the surprise and associative movement that is at the heart of all poetry.” HeartSaidMightExampleMovementPoetSurpriseMy FavoriteVersionsInstanceBeing The BestMaryExtremely Funny Author:Matthew Zapruder
“For me, every human is a little bit an exaggerated version of a real human - in most cases, they are versions of myself. I am someone deeply motivated by extremes - the poles not only become home for me, but they also become, strangely, my comfort zones.” HumansLittlesRealHomeBitsCasesComfortLittle BitExtremesVersionsZoneComing HomeMotivatedComfort ZoneExaggeratedReal Human Author:Porochista Khakpour
“Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.” WritingYearsJobsCommunityTeachingCollegeLaborUniversityVersionsAcademiaMigrantsPart TimeColleges And UniversitiesCommunity CollegeTeaching Writing Author:Debra Dean
“I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.” YearsPersonsBookDifferentStoriesIndividualBloodPerspectiveHusbandFocusedMemoirVersionsDisagreeConventionalFooledConcentratingSelectiveDifferent Perspective Author:Walter Kirn
“I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.” PeopleKnowsWorldNeedsFeelsHeartKindStillsDoneHelpingSongParticularTypeVersionsTempoHelp Yourself Author:Stephen Malkmus
“Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her books are really well known. Unfortunately they've been parodied to death, but they're so well known that I feel like I should approach it and I think I have an idea that will definitely spin it in a different way. There's melancholy and sadness around the edges. I haven't read all of her books, but it seems they often have... essentially happy endings?” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldWellsBookIdeasDifferentSeemsStuffKnownSadnessHavensApproachEdgesVersionsDifferent WaysMelancholyWell KnownJaneHappy EndingsAusten Author:Robert Sikoryak
“Sometimes I draw with my left hand and I am pretty terrible. The drawings end up just looking like shakier/inconsistent (worse) versions of my right hand drawings. Sometimes I like drawing with my eyes closed.” EndsSometimesHandsEyeLeftTerribleDrawsDrawingVersionsInconsistentLeft HandI Am Pretty Author:Jason Polan
“The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?” WritingHas BeensWarCharacterStoriesAbleTurnsSituationNovelBenefitsPagesRemainsDecadesVersionsCollectionsCommentNew Situations Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.” IfsTodayKingsVersionsSugarAmerican HistoryLuther Author:Kwasi Kwarteng
“Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan.com, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate in a modern way, just like their customers: They go on the Internet, look for an offer and take it.” WayLooksNumbersCompanyModernGoes OnInternetOffersChinaCustomersVersionsLarge NumbersTaxiTenantsUber Author:Zhang Xin
“One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.” FirstsTwoEndsWould BeNextLanguageRoomsStudentsPagesMy FavoriteTricksVersionsCompareTranslateSurvivedThe Next OneForeign Language Author:Gregory Rabassa
“Everything is just make believe. They're just different versions of make believe. I love the period of this movie [The Finest Hours]. I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style of the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the lights and the cars. I'm in love with all of it.” BelieveDifferentLightHoursCarStylePeriodsClothesVersionsFinestMake BelieveAmberFinest Hour Author:Chris Pine
“I figured that I'm going to bring my own version of Billy Flynn and do my very best with it and let it go.” My OwnVersionsLet It Go Author:Eddie George
“I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.” KnowsWayWantWritingYoungGirlVersionsYoung WomenThat Girl Author:Melissa Febos
“I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites. But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I'd read it while I ate my lunch. I'm also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn't consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.” IfsBookHomeHandsVersionsCardsComicLunchAnnoyingPublishersWebsiteBusiness Card Author:Adrian Tomine
“I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's just never going to be a real stand-in version of your comic. People will have to take advantage of the ability to have sound, or zoom in and out, whatever it is.” PeopleThinkingRealWould BeSoundAbilityImpossibleAdvantageAvailableVersionsComicBellsZoom Author:Adrian Tomine
“The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work.” PeopleWritingYearsLongTwoEnoughWould BeJobsThreeReadingStuffWeekMaterialsInternetEasierSixLong TimeScaryI RealizedVersionsBoredDiariesLong Time AgoFunny ThingsHad Enough Author:Jason Mulgrew
“I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.” BlackWhiteSilentVersionsBlack And WhiteWizards Author:Marcel Dzama
“My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.” RealSometimesCharacterUseAmericaArtistStyleMinesMy FavoriteHeavyVersionsCaptainsCostumesInkAlteredFavorite Artist Author:Marcel Dzama
“Usually they have to deal with a dubbing situation or subtitles, and it takes you out of the experience. That's why we wanted to make something that felt really immersive for Chiniese audience, but it takes a lot of work to make 2 versions of a movie!” WantedFeltDealsSituationAudienceVersionsSubtitlesDubbing Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight translation, and then animating it and lighting it, it's a lot of work.” WorldTwoArtistActorsVoiceAudienceScalesVersionsInsaneParallelsTranslationsLightingPipelineKung FuPandasKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.” KnowsWayFeelsWritingFactsStoriesFoundKnow HowVersionsObsessionSneakWriting Stories Author:Catherine Brady
“The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo, I'm dying to see the final print."” KnowsMadeDyingTvsFinalsVersionsPrintCraziest Author:Jake M. Johnson
“[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add jerk to it as well.” WellsRootsAddBritishVersionsCooksClassicDishesPieJerkShepherdsJamaicans Author:Naomie Harris
“Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news. The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. The bottom line is we all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.” PeopleWantLooksUseTodayTermNaturalLinesNumbersSeeingProductsHealthyApproachNewsHollywoodAgingBottomLifestyleVersionsStayingMeaninglessBottom LineHealthy LifestyleOld News Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“For joy, I live by the mantra of surrounding yourself with people who make your life better... people who enhance your life and motivate you to be the best version of yourself. It's not always easy, but I've had to make a conscious effort to remove people who are a lot of work and drain my energy...you know, those energy suckers we each have in our lives.” PeopleKnowsJoyEnergyEasyEffortOur LivesConsciousVersionsBeing The BestRemoveLive ByDrainsMantrasSucker Author:Theo Rossi
“A lot of times, identifying with a character in a book or a movie makes me feel really vulnerable. Especially in books, it's like being able to see an amplified version of yourself, and it's very surreal.” FeelsBookCharacterAbleVersionsVulnerableSurrealIdentifying Author:Haley Pullos
“Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves.” GroupsVersionsInclusionLatinoAssimilation Author:Kathryn Finney
“Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.” DrugUniversalMonstersVersionsGenreClassicFriendlyLooking BackLightersGateways Author:Bryan Fuller
“Barry Sanders, by far. Not only one of my favorite Lions, but one of my favorite NFL athletes. It's all about highlights for me, I'm a receiver! Sanders is like the NFL version of an And1 mix tape.” My FavoriteAthleteVersionsNflLionsTapeHighlightsReceiver Author:Nate Burleson
“I started to realize that everyone goes through those doubts, and I need to try and be the best version of me I can - not only for myself but everyone around me.” NeedsTryingI CanRealizingDoubtVersionsBeing The BestCan Not Author:Erin Willett
“If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.” IfsWorldTryingVersionsBeing The BestOffering Author:Erin Willett
“It's nice getting to play a different version of yourself. You sign on for a show and think you're just going to play one character for however many years, so it's nice, for an actor, to have a little bit of fun.” ThinkingYearsLittlesDifferentPlayCharacterShowsActorsFunBitsNiceLittle BitVersions Author:Candice Patton
“I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own version of it. And every translator would probably have a different version. But I think that that's what keeps the writers from being individual in English. They may be my English, but I don't think that Ferrante sounds like Levi.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingMayMeanDifferentCoursesIndividualSoundVersionsTranslatorsWrite Your Own Author:Ann Goldstein
“Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we will cut all of those drawings together with music, sound effects and dialogue. And we screen this kind of stick-figure version of the film.” WritingWellsKindTogetherFilmCoursesSoundCuttingEffectsFiguresSticksScriptsScreensDrawingDialogueVersionsSound EffectsStoryboarding Author:Pete Docter
“I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.” PeopleThinkingLooksDoeI CanSometimesPlayCultureRolesFantasyStrangeEnlightenmentIndiaVersionsContactNot SureEtcEasternConvincingSeeming Author:Brad Warner
“The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.” WorldStoriesVersionsTrends Author:Paolo Bacigalupi