Hook Quotes - Page 12

• I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you have to follow the story, you have to listen to the message of the song, and get it and use it in your everyday life.

  Valerie June

  Song, Everyday, Use

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.

  Chuck Israels

  Mean, Important, Essentials

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• That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self

  Carlos Castaneda

  Real, Lying, Self

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are able to settle, you'll be getting off rather easy. Debt settlement companies can sometimes get you off the hook for a large percentage of your debt - in many cases, up to 50% will be written off.

  Jean Chatzky

  Debt, Able, Sometimes

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cutting, Hands, Jail

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I've got my girl records that are real feel-good and could be a radio crossover. But it's not me going in that direction, and being like, "We need this huge pop crossover record where we need this girl on the hook."

  Donnis

  Girl, Real, Feel Good

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...

  PJ Harvey

  Rap, Writing, Playing Dress Up

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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• In terms of melody, I am really into great 90's melodies. I feel like there was a great focus on melody in the 90's, like 90's pop-hooks and 90's R&B hooks; I just love them.

  Thomston

  Focus, Pops, Term

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• I always have to start with a character that I can really hook into, and then build from there. I have writer friends who start from a world, an object or some kind of concept that they then hone and widdle into a story. But, for me, it has to be a character that I can really sink my teeth into and live with, for months and months.

  Katie Wech

  Character, Teeth, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's a person, or two people, who have an absolutely monomaniacal passion to get these films made. That's what makes them happen. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.

  William H. Macy

  Giving Up, Independent, Passion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've got a good right hook.

  Julie Andrews

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• I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to life. Every so often a talented actor doesn't hook in correctly to a character; or someone gets lost in a labyrinth of over-complicated thoughts, and the character and play suffer. However, most of the time I find actors either end up doing exactly what was in my head, or sometimes do something even better.

  Christopher Durang

  Character, Play, Suffering

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• I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Husband, Men, Feminist

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• I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured essays and poems from teens.Finding the right authors for the series has been no easy feat, mostly because I'm looking for a perfect blend of a teen girl with an interesting story or hook, fantastic writing talent, and the confidence to commit to writing a 30,000+ word book in a matter of months. It's a huge commitment and I recognize that, so the fit has to be there from all these different angles.

  Deborah Reber

  Girl, Teenage, Real

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• To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Boys, Roots

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Simple, Important, Stories

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that's why you're always gonna get passionate hooks, because I'm feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.

  Kid Cudi

  Feelings, Passionate, Likes

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• I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.

  John Legend

  Kids, Way, Melody

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• Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

  Paul Engle

  Writing, Thinking, Water

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• Get the big point of your advertisement into your headline. Use your headline as a hook to reach out and catch the special group of people you are trying to interest.

  John Caples

  People, Special, Trying

  John Caples (1932). “Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork”

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• This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America.

  Cornel West

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.

  Darius Rucker

  Song, Rap, Dying

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• And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Passion, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.

  Laozi

  Stealing, States

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