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A Million Little Things


with their loss. The title is a reference to the saying "Friendship isn't a big thing – it's a million little things." On August 18, 2017, ABC landed a series titled "A Million Little Things" with a put pilot commitment, to be written by DJ Nash, who would serve as executive producer alongside Aaron Kaplan and Dana Honor. The series was described as "being in the tone of "The Big Chill"," with the title stemming from the popular adage, "Friendship
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Picture book


Can Read" books: "Danny and the Dinosaur", "Sammy The Seal", "Julius", and "Oliver". In 1949 American writer and illustrator Richard Scarry began his career working on the Little Golden Books series. His "Best Word Book Ever" from 1963 has sold 4 million copies. In total Scarry wrote and illustrated more than 250 books and more than 100 million of his books have been sold worldwide. In 1963, "Where The Wild Things Are" by American writer and illustrator Maurice
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Every Little Thing (band)


Every Little Thing (also known as ELT) is a pop/soft rock duo from Japan who debuted in August 1996 with the release of their first single called "Feel My Heart". Their name is usually written in English, and only rarely in "katakana". They gained massive popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s. As of 2013, Every Little Thing has sold over 23 million copies of singles and albums throughout Japan. Their second studio album, "Time to Destination", is the best-
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Little Things (short story)


"Little Things" is a short story by American writer Raymond Carver. It was originally titled "Mine", but was first published in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" under the title "Popular Mechanics." It was then republished with the title "Little Things" in Carver's 1988 collection "Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories". "Little Things" is the story of a couple that has been having relationship issues. Raymond Carver uses ambiguity in the story to
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Little Things (One Direction song)


Independent" and "Rolling Stone" writer Jon Dolan criticised the lyrical content as jarring. Although Bill Lamb of Dotdash shared Smith's sentiment, he favoured Gosling's "beautiful" production of the song and the group's "top notch" vocal performance. Al Fox of BBC Music, who noted a "pursuit for credibility", felt that One Direction were "handing in their identity" with "Little Things". Jon Caramanica of "The New York Times" dismissed Sheeran's songwriting as "unusually lumpy in the
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The Thing (1982 film)


brought it to $14 million. The effects budget ran over, eventually totalling $1.5 million, forcing the elimination of some scenes, including Nauls's confrontation of a creature dubbed the "box Thing". By the end of production, Carpenter had to make a personal appeal to executive Ned Tanen for $100,000 to complete a simplified version of the Blair-Thing. The final cost was $12.4 million, and overhead costs brought it to $15 million. Several writers developed drafts for "The Thing" before Carpenter
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I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter


", who did not enjoy "Back to Front", felt that "I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter" re-established O'Sullivan, "in my eyes, as a writer-performer." He panned the two singles, but felt there was "little to criticise" elsewhere, praising the "well expressed" subject matters and lyrical substance, O'Sullivan's "originality in composing" and the instrumentation and arrangement, among other things. He concluded that "O'Sullivan has got back in part, if not
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A Million Little Things


isn't a big thing – it's a million little things." Nash came up with the idea for the series following his single-camera comedy pilot "Losing It". He said that "Sometimes in comedy, you have to apologize for adding drama, which is why I was so thrilled to see ABC's passion for a drama that has comedy". ABC officially ordered the series to pilot in January 2018, and the show was officially picked up to series on May 9, 2018. The series is
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Jonathan Caren


, Jon is a writer on Season 3 of USA's "The Sinner". He has written for ABC's a million little things, NBC’s “RISE,” executive produced by Jason Katims, Netflix’s “Gypsy,” starring Naomi Watts.  He’s written pilots for FOX and CBS. His first credit was writing for the CW’s "Melrose Place" reboot. His play "The Morning The Sun Fell Down" was adapted into a feature by Choice Films, starring Danny Pudi. He is a graduate
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The Book of Lost Things


below him holding the Book of Lost Things. The King talks of a mistake he made as a child and of how he wants to die. The Crooked Man disappears behind a tapestry, and the King returns the book to its place in an alcove. David sneaks down to the throne room and opens the Book of Lost Things; he finds it to be a child's scrapbook with some diary entries expressing the writer's hatred for a little girl who lived with his family, stating that he has decided to get rid
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Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal (Manhattan)


for an actor named George Holland, suggesting, "I believe there is a little church around the corner where they do that sort of thing." Joseph Jefferson, a fellow actor who was trying to arrange Holland's burial, exclaimed, "If that be so, God bless the little church around the corner!" and the church began a longstanding association with the theater. P. G. Wodehouse, when living in Greenwich Village as a young writer of novels and lyrics for musicals, married his wife Ethel at the Little
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Edith Lindeman


included "Little Things Mean a Lot", which, as recorded by Kitty Kallen, was the top song of 1954, and "Red Headed Stranger", which became a top hit when recorded by Willie Nelson. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. She also wrote the lyrics for "Blackberry Winter", which became a back-door million-seller as the B-side of Mitch Miller's recording of The Yellow Rose of Texas,
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Santa's Little Helper


the dog thing... why do we need to pay Welker who comes in here, spends less than an hour, eats all the doughnuts, refuses to come to rehearsals... let's just give the damn dog to Dan!'" Santa's Little Helper has become a well-known dog because of his appearances in the series. A writer for "The Grand Rapids Press" wrote in 2002 that "we all know who Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are—heck, most Americans probably recognize their
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Cloak & Dagger (season 1)


[but] they were a little bit sexist and racist once you got into it, for now. What we tried to do was deconstruct it and make it about Tandy and Tyrone, understand who they were", to tell "the right story for now". However, Pokaski felt "there is a nobility to the fact that [the original comic writers] wrote [the comics] to show there were homeless children and people doing drugs and things like that. There are some different things that we’re trying
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The Office (American TV series)


and those who use digital video recorders, 25–50% of the show's viewers watched it after its scheduled airtime. The show's Internet success became an issue in the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Daniels and many of the cast members who double as writers posted a video to YouTube shortly after the strike began, pointing out how little, if any, they received in residuals from online and DVD viewing. "You're watching this on the Internet, a thing that pays us zero dollars," Schur said.
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The Time Machine


an illustration of "the ultimate degeneracy" of humanity. "There was a slight struggle," Wells later recalled, "between the writer and W. E. Henley who wanted, he said, to put a little 'writing' into the tale. But the writer was in reaction from that sort of thing, the Henley interpolations were cut out again, and he had his own way with his text." This portion of the story was published elsewhere as "". The deleted text was also published by Forrest J
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Craig Wilson (columnist)


Craig Wilson is an American writer who was a columnist for "USA Today". He was a feature writer at the newspaper for over two decades. He wrote his "The Final Word" column each Wednesday from 2000 to 2013. He is also the author of "It's the Little Things: An Appreciation of Life's Simple Pleasures" (Random House, ). Prior to joining "USA Today", Wilson was a columnist for the "Saratogian" in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was an AFS
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A Million Little Things


produced by ABC Studios and Kapital Entertainment. On February 5, 2019, during the TCA press tour, "A Million Little Things" was renewed for a second season. On February 6, 2018, David Giuntoli was cast as Eddie. A week later, Romany Malco was cast as Rome. By the end of the month, Christina Ochoa had joined the cast as Ashley, along with Anne Son as Katherine, Christina Moses as Regina Howard, and James Roday as Gary. In early March 2018, Stéphanie Szostak was
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Graham Swift


everybody comes up with is "magic realism", which I think has now become a little tired. But on the other hand there’s no doubt that English writers of my generation have been very much influenced by writers from outside who in one way or another have got this magical, surreal quality, such as Borges, Márquez, Grass, and that that has been stimulating. I think in general it’s been a good thing. Because we are, as ever, terribly parochial, self-absorbed and isolated,
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Evette Rios


Evette Ríos is an American bilingual lifestyle expert, writer, television host, designer and native New Yorker of Puerto Rican heritage. Ríos is currently the host of a hugely successful Facebook Live series called "Slice", a collaboration with The Little Things, a viral Facebook channel. She has received over 1 million views over her first four 15 minute episodes she also hosts "Recipe Rehab", which aired on CBS but currently airs on Z Living. Most recently she hosted The Way Home for A&E (TV channel) Networks
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A Million Little Things


Million Little Things" was ordered to series in May 2018 and premiered on September 26, 2018. On October 26, 2018, the show was picked for a full season of 17 episodes. On February 5, 2019, ABC renewed the series for a second season which is set to premiere on September 26, 2019. Set in Boston, a tight-knit circle of friends is shocked after a member of the group dies from suicide unexpectedly. Each friend realizes that they need to finally start living life as they cope
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Cougar Town (season 1)


her husband would write down little things that she would say, in which she believes is the reason her character "came out of that." In addition to having created the series, Bill Lawrence is the show runner, head writer, and the executive producer. Courteney Cox, who also stars on the show, serves as executive producer alongside Lawrence. Lawrence, the executive producer, show runner, head writer and creator of "Scrubs", co-wrote and directed the pilot and wrote the second episode. He
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George Meyer


cell-cell recognition." Meanwhile, fellow "Lampoon" writers Tom Gammill and Max Pross suggested Meyer to comedian David Letterman who, along with head writer Merrill Markoe, hired him as a member of the writing staff on Letterman's new late night show. Letterman noted: "Everything in his submission, down to the last little detail, was so beautifully honed." Meyer wrote several recurring gags for the show, including "Crushing Things With A Steamroller". His ambitions for the show were grandiose; "I
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A Million Little Things


A Million Little Things is an American family drama television series created by DJ Nash for ABC. Nash, Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, and James Griffiths serve as executive producers on the series. The series is produced by ABC Studios and Kapital Entertainment. The series features an ensemble cast including David Giuntoli, Romany Malco, Allison Miller, Christina Moses, Christina Ochoa, Grace Park, James Roday, Stéphanie Szostak, Tristan Byon and Lizzy Greene. The series received a put pilot commitment at ABC in August 2017; "A
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Bride Has Massive Hair Wig Out


viewed 2.8 million times, it was revealed to have been part of a campaign created by marketing firm Capital C, for Unilever for its Sunsilk brand of hair care products, and removed. It featured actor/writer Ingrid Haas who was hired as the writer and bridesmaid along with Jessie Behan (who plays the most attentive bridesmaid) and John Griffith directed and videographed it. The six-minute clip begins with three bridesmaids killing time in a hotel room while awaiting Jodi, the bride, who they note is running a little
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An Essay on Criticism


An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human, to forgive divine," "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (frequently misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing"), and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." It first appeared in 1711 after having been written in 1709, and it is clear from Pope's correspondence that many of
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List of Neighbours characters (2012)


for a date. They get on well and Olivia tells Karl about her job as a writer. Their date is interrupted by Natasha Williams, who explains that her mother is a huge fan of Karl and his music. Olivia is impressed and believes that kind of thing happens to Karl all the time. Olivia admits her profile was a little embellished and she actually published her books herself, selling only fifteen. Karl then admits that his profile was a little exaggerated too, calling Natasha over to explain. Olivia decides that they
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S.L.U.T. (song)


Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing" in the game, likely to be more kid-friendly. "S.L.U.T." is a song about female empowerment. In an interview with "Teen Vogue", Miller said that she was inspired to write the song when someone commented on a picture she posted of herself to slut-shame her. Miller's co-writer looked up the word 'slut' on the "Urban Dictionary" and one of the definitions defined it as an acronym for "Sweet, little, unforgettable thing".
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The Personal Heresy


Tillyard says "that personality accounts for only a part" (115) of poetry. He probably meant "a small part." Tillyard also agrees with Lewis that at times the little things matter a great deal for what they say about the writer's personality, but only if those little things are part of the essence of the individual's personality. On this point, they agree. They have been talking past one another. Now they are on the same page. Near the end of the chapter, Tillyard says
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Pretty Little Things


Pretty Little Things is a 2010 novel by Jilliane Hoffman. It was released in the USA on September 7, 2010, and deals with the topics of internet crime and missing and exploited children and is set in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area. In addition to the US release, the book has enjoyed a considerable success on the German market, titled "Mädchenfänger", with a #5 rank among new novel releases. Hoffman wrote the book based on her own professional experience; before her career as a writer, she
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Dhruv Sehgal


Dhruv Sehgal (born 1989/1990) is an Indian actor and writer known for his work in Filter Copy and "Little Things". He played the role of Dhruv in Dice Media's Little Things with Mithilia Palkar. Sehgal is originally from Delhi. He studied at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune. Sehgal worked as an assistant director for the documentary, "Baavra Mann" (2013) and as an editor for "I am Offended" (2015). He also made a short film called "Kunal"
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Louis de Verjus


". On Verjus's death, the duke-writer added: "He was a short little man, soft, polite, respectful, clever, who passed his life on foreign services, and who took all manners, up to the very long language at Regensburg, then in many minor courts of Germany [...] He had much insinuation, the art of re-saying the same thing a hundred times, always in different ways, [and] very often thus succeeded. Nobody knew more on the usages,
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One Direction


best-selling albums of 2012 globally, each album selling over 4.4 million units worldwide. The album and "Little Things" both debuted at number one in the UK simultaneously, making One Direction the youngest act in British chart history to achieve that. "Take Me Home" was written in groups and has an average of just under five songwriters per track. Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub, and Carl Falk, who composed One Direction's hits "What Makes You Beautiful" and "One Thing", spent six months
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Boyd McDonald (pornographer)


Sniffing." Bad spelling and writing were deliberately not corrected: Any hack writer can be coherent, but these are amateur writers and they put a lot of incoherent things in... The letters I like are the ones that are pretty ragged. A lot of fears and flaws, failures. The three Fs... Some of the guys try to organize them and make them quirkier and have little punch lines at the end. Little neat, O. Henry type stories... I don't like them organized. "He encouraged "STH
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Sol Brodsky


Sol did all the production. My job was mainly talking to the artists and the writers and telling them I wanted the stuff done. Sol did ... the corrections, making sure everything looked right, making sure things went to the engraver and he also talked to the printer. He was really the production manager. And then little by little we built things back up again." During a 1957 economic entrenchment at the company, Goodman again fired the staff, except for Lee. Brodsky teamed with friend and fellow comic artist
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Now and Then (film)


adapted "Pretty Little Liars", but the project did not move past the development stage. The film received generally negative reviews but was a moderate financial success, grossing $37.5 million on a $12 million budget. In 1995, four childhood friends reunite in their hometown of Shelby, Indiana. Samantha Albertson, a science-fiction writer, narrates the story. As an adolescent, she was considered the "weird" girl who liked performing seances and was interested in science fiction and the supernatural. Roberta Martin, a
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EastEnders: E20


million views with additional content pushing the total to 3.3 million. Santer was reported to be "knocked out" by the figures, saying: "For our little side project, something that started life as an experiment, to go so big is very exciting. I'm delighted in particular that the 13 young London writers who wrote the series have reached such an audience with their first professional work." "EastEnders: E20" official Facebook fan page grew in membership from 100 to 5000 in a matter of hours after the
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Richard Peck (writer)


in 41 years. Peck was an adjunct professor with Louisiana State University's School of Library and Information Sciences. A magazine article describes Peck as a person "who is fastidious about what he allows others to know about himself. He knew, respected, and honored personal boundaries in ways that are refreshing for someone who grew up in the sixties and seventies, when every little personal thing was fair game." He lived in New York and divided his time between writing and traveling. Peck died in New York City in May
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WGA screenwriting credit system


writer creates an idea from scratch, that's one thing. Even if the script is given to other writers and rewritten, that first writer created the seeds of that idea and he or she should get some regard. But for a script from a book, it's different. Even if little of the initial efforts remain in the final script, original writers are often awarded credit because they were first on the scene. Frank Pierson, former WGAW president (and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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The Shape of Things to Come (Lost)


however, the 100-day 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike paused production and caused the writers to condense the second half of the season, which aired after a four-week break. "The Shape of Things to Come" received positive critical reviews, and the original broadcast in the United States was viewed by 14 million people. Much praise was directed at Emerson's acting skills, particularly in his reaction to the execution of his character's daughter Alex (Tania Raymonde). His performance in this specific episode received a nomination for
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Printed media in the Soviet Union


"Nedelya" (Week), another magazine, was published as a weekly supplement to "Izvestiya" newspaper and appeared every Sunday, having a circulation of some 9 to 10 million. Such journals as "Ogonyok" (Little Fire), a weekly that became more popular in the late 1980s because of its insightful political exposes, human interest stories, serialized features, and pictorial sections, had an audience of over 2 million people. In 1986 it published excerpted works by the previously banned writer Nikolai Gumilev, who was
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The Fabulous Little Richard


tickets home were bought on the basis of a two-week tour, but I demanded passage back to the States for the total entourage ten days early. The incredible thing is that the plane we were originally scheduled to return on crashed into the Pacific Ocean. That's when I felt that God really had inspired me to do the things I did at the time." The liner notes of the album observed that Little Richard "is at present deeply engrossed in religious activities, thus sacrificing the millions of dollars he could
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Playtime (Pretty Little Liars)


"Playtime" is the eleventh episode of "Pretty Little Liars" seventh season and the 151st episode overall. It first aired on the Freeform network in the United States on April 18, 2017. The installment was directed by Chad Lowe and written by Allyson Nelson and Joseph Dougherty. Upon its original airing in the United States, the episode was watched by 1.33 million people. In the aftermath of Spencer's (Troian Bellisario) shooting, things get messy in the Hastings residence when Veronica (Lesley Fera) reveals things about
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Spooky Little Girl


The A.V. Club" Emily VanDerWerff said, "We learned a bunch of things that will likely be important going forward, but they were also things that didn't really matter... It's been a bit of a step down since that brain-eating episode. This episode was a step in the crazy direction." In its original American broadcast, "Spooky Little Girl" was seen by an estimated 2.85 million household viewers and gained a 1.7 ratings share among adults aged 18–49, according to Nielsen Media Research. The episode
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Where the Wild Things Are


Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1973 (with an updated version in 1988); a 1980 opera; and a live-action 2009 feature-film adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze. The book had sold over 19 million copies worldwide , with 10 million of those being in the United States. Sendak won the annual Caldecott Medal
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Dhruv Sehgal


, which won the Golden Gateway Dimensions Mumbai Award at the Mumbai Film Festival, 2015. He has co-written and acted in many comedy sketches such as "Confusing Things Girlfriends Say" and "Annoying Things Boyfriends Do" for Filter Copy. He also portrays the lead role in the series "Little Things", opposite Mithila Palkar, since 2016. Sehgal is the creator and writer of the series. In 2018, he was part of a panel at the Indian Screenwriters Conference. Sehgal enjoys cooking and regularly visits his
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Imaginary Heroes


of a mother who loves her son, understands him, and understands herself in a wry but realistic way. The characters deserve a better movie, but they get a pretty good one." Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle" said the film "has a strong narrative spine, with interesting and big things happening throughout - an unexpected virtue in a family drama. But this virtue is obscured somewhat by the movie's lack of narrative drive. Writer Dan Harris has written himself a tidy little story, but in
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Mavis Cheek


her previous record. She says of her writing (2012) that she is one in a line of feminist, subversive women authors – with jokes. Six of her novels were being reissued in 2019, including "Amenable Women". Cheek's work is full of comedy. She claims to pay little attention to plot, but enjoys dotting her work with literary quotations and allusions. As one journalist put it in 2006, "Mavis Cheek is generally acknowledged by those who generally acknowledge these things to be a writer of the
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Haven (TV series)


plot of an episode revolves around an idea from King's works: a character who has precognitive, psychometric visions after touching people or things; or plants that start killing people. It is noted on the Syfy site that ""It" is a particular favorite Stephen King book for the Haven writers and producers". For example, in "A Tale of Two Audreys", a little boy in a yellow rain slicker is seen outside the church chasing a newspaper boat that he has set in the stream in the gutter
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Milovan Vidaković


Serbian literary language published by Jernej Kopitar in the German press. "Now we who begin to write a little for our people find ourselves in rather unpleasant times; they criticize us more for our language than for our work, but they are right too; it is the duty of the translator, as well as the writer himself, to pay as much attention to his language as to the thing he is expressing in it." Vidaković has been generally described by critics of his opus as a solitary figure, out of
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Humanism


philosophers include Protagoras (like Anaxagoras a friend of Pericles), known for his famous dictum "man is the measure of all things" and Democritus, who proposed that matter was composed of atoms. Little of the written work of these early philosophers survives and they are known mainly from fragments and quotations in other writers, principally Plato and Aristotle. The historian Thucydides, noted for his scientific and rational approach to history, is also much admired by later humanists. In the 3rd century BCE, Epicurus became known for his concise
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Ron Fitzgerald


Ron Fitzgerald is an American television writer. He is best known for working on the NBC drama "Friday Night Lights" and the Showtime comedy "Weeds" and has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards. He began writing for television for the fourth season of "Weeds" in 2008. He wrote the episodes "The Whole Blah Damn Thing" and "Little Boats". He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Comedy Series at the February 2009 ceremony
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Little Moon Moon


Rong Rong". The series of live updates recorded an astonishing story of Little Moon Moon (Rong Rong's high school classmate) and her boyfriend's visit to Shanghai Expo during the National Day holiday, with Rong Rong being their host showing them around, and along the journey, endless miserable and crazy things happened (such as Little Moon Moon's self-suicide farce, singing weird poetry, etc.). The writer used tons of words to describe how she was completely "astounded/superfied" by Little Moon
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Hello Americans


they were very amusing. I didn't really do much of it — the writers were awfully good. And it was a good form. A-B-C: "A" is for "Antilles," "Antigua," and so on. We went through like that and did little things and big things, with music and stories each week. I'm queer for the Caribbean anyway — not as it exists, but as it was in my mind in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Caribbean is
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Every Little Thing (band)


selling album of the band with over 3.5 million copies sold, and became the 10th best-selling album of all time in Japan. Also known as ELT by their fans, Every Little Thing was originally a trio but became a duo in 2000 with Kaori Mochida as the singer and Ichiro Ito as the guitarist. Mitsuru Igarashi left ELT following the release of their third original album, "Eternity". Ito began playing guitar in local bands around the US Yokota Air Base in Fussa, Tokyo, performing cover versions of songs
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The Little Friend (Marshall novel)


The Little Friend is a 1929 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. James Garrett is the “Little Friend” of several young women. Whether or not this is a good thing for these ladies is the issue studied in this tragicomic novel. Garrett meets Effie, the lovely daughter of a local pastor, while studying for the ministry at St. Andrews, a university in Scotland. He falls in love with Effie only moments after meeting her. They are inseparable, until, just days before his graduation–ordination, and the
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Dan Slott


" branding. At the end of 2005, Slott was assigned to write The Thing's first solo series in 20 years. It was not a sales success, and was canceled with issue #8, despite Slott's attempts to rally readers in a campaign he called "Pull My Thing." The eight issues have been released in a trade paperback entitled "Idol of Millions," which sees the Thing and other heroes fighting deadly roller-coasters and other machines in Arcade's Murderworld. Slott was the writer of Marvel
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Dreams on Spec


would improvise with Robin Williams. Well, he and I do that anyway. So now you have two people that desperately need medication, but it's fine if they're off and you’re taking notes. And we had a very good time." As to why some young screenwriters succeed while so many others do not, Paul Guay (the co-writer of "Liar Liar", "Heartbreakers" and "The Little Rascals") says, “The thing that separates more successful writers from less successful writers
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Modern Chivalry


Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Regan, His servant is a rambling, satirical American novel by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a Pittsburgh writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The book was first published in 1792. The hero, Captain John Farrago, is a frontier Don Quixote who leaves on a whim his Western Pennsylvania farm to "ride about the world a little, with his man Teague at his heels, to see how things were going on here and there
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Dick Young (sportswriter)


favor of the union, thus ending baseball's reserve clause, Young's first reaction was to write: "Peter Seitz reminds me of a terrorist, a little man to whom nothing very important has happened in his lifetime, who suddenly decides to create some excitement by tossing a bomb into things." Young took to invoking "My America", which was more a state of mind than a location. From Young's America, the writer decried the majority of contemporary athletes and events. Certain athletes won Young over with
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Judge and Jury


Judge and Jury is a popular novel written by thriller novel writer James Patterson with Andrew Gross. It was published in 2006 by Little Brown and Company. It's the biggest trial of the decade - big time mobster Dominic Cavello has finally been put in the dock, and there's enough evidence to make a conviction. Heavy security surrounds the courtroom, and Nick Pellisante, the FBI agent who helped to nail Cavello, keeps a close eye on the proceedings. But things swiftly begin to go wrong. Faced with anonymous threats
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Captain John Hart (Torchwood)


character seen in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and that his "affection and love for Captain Jack are enough to make him try and do the noble thing". Stephen James Walker, a writer of reference works on "Doctor Who" and its spin-offs, notes that because of the reluctance of Hart's collaboration with Gray and his remorse for his actions the episode leaves the audience "a little more favourably disposed" towards the character. In April 2008 Marsters indicated that he expected to return to "Torchwood"
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Nate Cooper


take control of things now, and deal with the repercussions later." Writers devised a deadly scenario for the character when he is involved an accident in the Australian bush. Nate and Brax go in search of missing VJ Patterson (Matthew Little) who has been tied up by Tyson Lee (Ben Bennett). Nate stumbles and falls down a ravine. To his horror Nate realises that on impact he has been impaled by a tree branch and is stuck in a remote area of the bush. Pryor explained that his medic
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Callum Kane


writer observed that Callum was moody, clever and "a little bit gloomy." While Duncan described his character as being "a bit of a mystery man." Callum does not care what anyone else thinks. He does not enjoy socialising or being perceived as a cool guy. Duncan said "I think, most of the time, Callum is the kind of character who just doesn't really want to be bothered by anything or anyone. He wants to do his own thing, get on with his own life,
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Gigantic (film)


have a younger sibling; his younger brother did in fact adopt a baby later. He and co-writer Adam Nagata were fascinated by the idea and built the story around Brian's wanting to adopt a baby. Aselton and Nagata, college friends who both come from literary backgrounds, aimed to write the film as novelistic and surrealist rather than expository. They wanted to show "those little things that are often found in literature but rarely in film", such as Brian and his father's age difference and how it affects
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Ryan Beatty


has been covering popular songs and posting them on his YouTube channel. The videos have been well received with his most popular song, a cover of Bruno Mars' "Marry You", gaining over 6 million views. He released his debut single "Every Little Thing" in November 2011, which reached #89 on the iTunes Pop Charts. Ryan Seacrest premiered Beatty's debut music video "Every Little Thing" on February 2, 2012, following good response from fans to the trailer. Beatty went on to release his
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Ron Livingston


Peter Farrelly produced series, Livingston plays the title role of Sam Loudermilk, a substance abuse counselor who is also a recovering alcoholic who is known for his bad behavior and attitude. The show premiered in October 2017 and was renewed in April 2018 for a second season that will premiere in October 2018. He also stars in the ABC family drama series "A Million Little Things" as Jon Dixon, whose suicide causes his group of friends to evaluate their own lives Livingston and his "Standoff" co-star Rosemarie DeWitt began
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Ted DiBiase


, though former writer and producer Bruce Prichard disputes this. The name of DiBiase's finishing move, the Million Dollar Dream (in which someone is put to sleep), was also supposedly meant to be an insult to Dusty Rhodes, who was named the American Dream. Virgil was often seen performing humiliating tasks, such as rubbing DiBiase's feet. DiBiase claimed "Everybody has a price" demonstrating his "power" through a series of vignettes in which he did things such as bribe the manager of a local swimming pool
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Under Siege


the role became a character "who gradually reveals her intelligence." Lawton said "We are trying to make him [Seagal] more mainstream . . . getting him out of the pure action genre and into an acting role." The writer added "I'm trying to bring the budget within a reasonable range. The original script was almost irresponsible, with things like battleships getting blown up... The way it was, "Dreadnought" would have cost $100 million-plus to make. Now we're looking at
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The Convict


discussing trustworthy black men; Sciannamea attributed this to its guest writers: "I don't think Gervais and Merchant went over the top...it just seemed a little different than the others." Also in his review, Sciannamea expressed his gradual enjoyment of Andy, "When I first saw him up in Stamford, I thought he was just the Connecticut version of Dwight. But now I think he adds greatly to the mix and is definitely one who is going to stir things up in Scranton." Give Me My Remote
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Margaret Robertson Watt


ACWW badge. In 1936, he created the well-known logo, depicted as the 4 compass points, with 2 green circles symbolizing friendship, surrounded by green, the 'carpet' of the Earth. Although Madge Watt had begun her adult career as the writer, Madge Robertson, she never wrote her own story. She was not a person who gathered things for herself. Except for a short period following World War 1, she lived on very little money and moved from one set of rented quarters to another.
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Evelyn Underhill


who is a Master in the things I care so much about but know so little of as yet: & I understand now something of what your writers mean when they insist on the necessity and value of the personal teacher and the fact that he gives something which the learner cannot get in any other way. It has been like hearing the language of which I barely know the alphabet, spoken perfectly.(Letters) They did not keep up their correspondence in later years. Both suffered debilitating illnesses in the last year of life and
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Year of the Comet


Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. "Wine is really the hero of this film," said Peter Yates. Goldman was on set much of the time. "The locations played a great part in my being here," Goldman said at the time. "But it's for little things-something will happen in the staging that will obviate a line. It's little stuff, but Peter (Yates) likes having a writer around." Daly wore a mustache in the film: I thought it was kind of
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Burma Railway


— the total number of people who were involved (one-quarter of a million), the very short time in which they managed to accomplish it, and the extreme conditions they accomplished it under. They had very little transportation to get stuff to and from the workers, they had almost no medication, they couldn’t get food let alone materials, they had no tools to work with except for basic things like spades and hammers, and they worked in extremely difficult conditions — in the jungle with its heat and humidity
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Stéphanie Szostak


Stéphanie Szostak (born June 12, 1975) is a French actress who started her career in the early 2000s. Szostak is best known for having appeared in the films "The Devil Wears Prada", "Dinner for Schmucks", "Iron Man 3", and "R.I.P.D." Szostak starred in the USA Network original drama series "Satisfaction" and the ABC series "A Million Little Things". Szostak was raised in the suburbs of Paris, France. She moved to the United States to study business at The
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Million Dollar Mermaid


-Mayer cast either a new actress, perhaps an Australian girl, in the part. Don't think I'm complaining, though. She's a lovely girl, and I'm very fond of her. I just feel that she's such a 'name' that people will be a little inclined to associate the picture with her rather than me." Kellerman liked Hornblow. "He is the man who finds life and drama in simple things, and that really is what my story is. In the two years
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De doctrina Christiana


to Barham, this is where Augustine “quotes Cicero’s very words: ‘he, then, shall be eloquent, who can say little things in a subdued style, moderate things in a temperate style, and great things in a majestic style.’” However, Barham is also quick to note that, “Augustine, after all, does not completely agree with his famous predecessor,” in that, he believes that for Christian teachers, nothing they preach would be considered a ‘little thing.’ As a
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A Little Kiss


premiere at 1.4 million viewers. Charlie Collier, AMC’s president, said that "For each of the five "Mad Men" seasons Matthew Weiner and his team have crafted a beautifully told story and each season a larger audience has responded; a rare accomplishment. We couldn’t be more proud of this program, the brilliant writers, cast and crew, and the entire team on each side of the camera." "A Little Kiss" received very approving reviews from the television critic community. "USA Today" writer
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Ugly Things


, and Misty Lane now), Mike Stax has managed not only to keep it alive, but expand his trip in various directions, and in the process become one of the very best -- perhaps THE very best -- 1960s-oriented writer out there." A review of "Ugly Things" in Head Press by David Kerekes sums up the publication: "When it comes to garage rock and everything associated with 'wild sounds from past dimensions', there is little to compare to the magnitude that is the mighty Ugly
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Hitler's Children (1943 film)


who directed, has set the whole thing in an oratorical style and has given it the quality of a philippic rather than a credible story from life." Despite lukewarm critical reviews, "Hitler's Children" was a massive hit and earned RKO a profit of $1.21 million. It was the fourth-highest grossing film of the year and RKO's most successful film of the year. The writer and director were each given $5,000 bonuses for their work. The film is also one of Granville's most recognized performances
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Amy Adams


" and criticized her lack of chemistry with Cavill. The film earned over $660 million to become one of her biggest box-office hits. Adams next featured in "Her", a drama from the writer-director Spike Jonze about a lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with an operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson); Adams played his close friend. She had unsuccessfully auditioned for Jonze's 2009 film "Where the Wild Things Are" and was hired for "Her" after Jonze looked
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Black Sabbath (film)


grossing 103.5 million Italian lira (equivalent to $65,000). Co-writer Alberto Bevilacqua suggested that the film's poor performance was possibly affected by bad publicity, recalling that "someone had a miscarriage while watching it, or some other upsetting thing happened". American International Pictures released the English version of "Black Sabbath" on May 6, 1964 as a double bill with AIP's edit of Bava's "The Girl Who Knew Too Much", then titled "Evil Eye". The English title of "Black
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Vincent Chase


The highest bidder was Yair Marx, who offered $75 million. Once the movie was finally screened, however, the reception in the theatre was overwhelmingly negative. Marx withdrew his offer, but Harvey Weingard offered to buy it for one dollar. Opting to look at what little bright side there was to things, Ari told Vince, "You should have seen "Shakespeare in Love" before Harvey got his scissor-hands on it." "Medellín" directly goes to DVD and is savagely reviewed by Richard Roeper and
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Leaps and Bounds (song)


international releases, to Paul Kelly and the Messengers. In 1997, Kelly was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, at the ceremony Crowded House paid tribute to Kelly and performed "Leaps and Bounds". In October 2003, Xanthe Littlemore covered "Leaps and Bounds" for the tribute album, "Stories of Me – A Songwriter's Tribute to Paul Kelly". In 2005, rock music writer, Toby Creswell described two of Kelly's songs: "Leaps and Bounds" and "From Little Things Big Things Grow
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A Sight for Sore Eyes (novel)


A Sight For Sore Eyes is a psychological thriller by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. "A Sight for Sore Eyes" tells three stories of very different people, whose lives converge with horrifying consequences. Teddy is raised by a neglectful family with little concern for his welfare or emotional development, so that he grows into a reclusive young man without compassion or empathy. Fonder of objects than people, he becomes a talented carpenter who enjoys making beautiful things to contrast with the ugliness he sees around him. Francine is a beautiful
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Little Things (One Direction song)


copies. The music video for "Little Things" was shot entirely in black-and-white and directed by Vaughan Arnell, who had previously directed the band's music video for their previous single "Live While We're Young". Tomlinson disclosed via social networking website Twitter that an accompanying music video for "Little Things" was in production on 15 October 2012. Band member Zayn Malik confirmed that they had finished filming the video the following day. On each of the five days preceding the video's premiere, One
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Speusippus


the head of the school by Xenocrates. Diogenes Laërtius gives us a list of some of the titles of the many dialogues and commentaries of Speusippus, which is of little help in determining their contents, and the fragments provided by other writers provide us with only a little extra. Speusippus was interested in bringing together those things which were similar in their philosophical treatment, and to the derivation, and laying down, of the ideas of genera and species: for he was interested in what the various sciences had in common, and
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Connor O'Neill


own ideas and adding little things in." A writer for the BBC's "Neighbours" website described Connor as "a splendid and thoughtful young man". A Channel 5 website reporter branded Connor a "lovable larrikin", while adding that he was "famed for a rather unique sense of style." In November 2012, Harvey told an "Inside Soap" writer that there would be no chance of Connor finding his "inner adult" anytime soon. He added "He's still a bit of a larrikin
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Vladimir Suteev


Illustrated with Suteev's drawings, the below-mentioned books were published in Russia for the first time: Gianni Rodari's "Cippolino's adventures" (Suteev's heroes of the fairy-tale have become specimens for toys), the Norwegian writer Alf Prøysen's "Happy New Year", the English writer Lilian Moore "Little raccoon and the Thing in the pool". Suteev's Pif-puppy has become a favorite of children throughout the world ("The adventures of Pif", retold from French). History
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The Little Prince


The Little Prince (; ), first published in April 1943, is a novella, the most famous work of French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The novella has been voted the best book of the 20th century in France. Translated into 300 languages and dialects, selling nearly two million copies annually, and with year-to-date sales of over 140 million copies worldwide, it has become one of the best-selling and most translated books ever published. After the outbreak
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The C Word


word" by one of her writers. In discussion of this, she said, "That C-word thing actually did happen. I was furious, and I had this weird reaction where I kept saying, 'You can't say that! My parents love me!'" In another interview, she was asked whether the c-word was based on experience, to which she said, "It was a little bit. It was a little bit based on the experience of having someone call you that and
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Spring Fire


"The Postman Always Rings Twice" by James M. Cain and "My Cousin Rachel" by Daphne du Maurier, also released the same year. When the paper in pulp novels was not designed to last more than a year, "Spring Fire" went through three printings, eventually selling nearly 1.5 million copies. Its success earned Meaker an invitation to meet Roger Fawcett, the owner of Gold Medal Books' parent company, who wanted to, "shake the hand of the writer who outsold "God's Little Acre"
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Supernatural (season 3)


and these creepy little rooms", and suggested that the writers "open up the scope of the story and make things more epic" following the "epic kind of scope" associated with the second-season episodes "Hollywood Babylon" and "All Hell Breaks Loose". With this in mind, the writers decided to depict the war as large-scale. Though Kripke warned that doing so would cost much more money, the studio gave its blessing to exceed the allotted budget. However, the season premiere came in
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A Million Little Things


cast as Delilah, while Lizzy Greene was cast as Sophie Dixon. That month, it was also revealed that Ron Livingston had joined the series in an unspecified role, which was revealed with the series order in May to be the character Jon. On June 27, 2018, Grace Park was cast as Katherine, replacing Anne Son who was in the original pilot. Production on the pilot took place from March 12 to 29, 2018, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Principal photography for the first season began on July 24
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Radical Son


David Leha, known professionally as Radical Son, is an Indigenous Australian and Tongan singer. He was part of the GetUp Mob, which released a cover version of "From Little Things Big Things Grow" in May 2008 – it reached No. 4 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Other members of the temporary group were the song's writers Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly together with Urthboy, Missy Higgins, Mia Dyson, Jane Tyrrell, Dan Sultan, Joel Wenitong and Ozi Batla. Radical Son's second studio album, "
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Memory (2006 film)


to bring them to the big screen”. “One of the most appealing things to me,” explains Billy Zane “is that so much of Taylor is internalized. He says very little, but we’re in his head the whole time.” “I hate dialogue,” co-writer Anthony Badalucco adds, “I think it’s much more interesting to see Taylor doing things that explain and explore his psyche than for him to babble his thought aloud in some exposition”. After viewing George Lucas’s “
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Kev Carmody


Kevin Daniel Carmody (born 1946), usually known as Kev Carmody, is an Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter and musician, a Murri man from northern Queensland. He is best known for the song "From Little Things Big Things Grow", which was recorded with co-writer Paul Kelly for their 1993 single; it was covered by the Get Up Mob (including guest vocals by both Carmody and Kelly) in 2008 and peaked at number four on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) singles charts. On 27
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Carson Beckett


season two. Although McGillion was born in Scotland, he only put on a Scottish accent during filming. McGillion said in an interview with The Sci-Fi World, "We improv[ise] a lot after the scene's over, and sometimes they'll keep some of the material and sometimes they won't. I'll often throw in little things like 'Ya cheeky little bugger'." When the episode "Duet" was conceived, the writers wanted to maximise the chemistry and friendship between Beckett and McKay. Martin Gero
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Rain Is a Good Thing


rain can affect life by facilitating the growth of corn, which in turn is processed into whiskey, which in turn causes his significant other to "feel a little frisky." Bryan told The Boot that he and co-writer Dallas Davidson "used to have the saying, 'Rain makes corn, and corn makes whiskey,' and it was just something we always said. If we were a little bummed out about the rain […] we'd be like, 'Well, rain makes corn, and corn
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Some Things I Know


. The current single, "A Little Past Little Rock," is a blue-chip country weeper. The real gem here, though, is Bobby Braddock's composition "I'd Rather Have What We Had." The writer of such country classics as George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today," Braddock has penned a cheating song for the ages with "I'd Rather Have What We Had." And Womack brings home the groceries with her emotional delivery." Bill Friskics-Warren of "The
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