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Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.
If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.
You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.
The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.
The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.
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.
I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.
If I improvise vocals at an early stage of the song, I just kind of listen to the roll, and then I kind of have a little vocal hook.
America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.
I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.
With any modern relationship between a man and a woman, everyone - including their own friends - assume that they're going to hook up.
I had T-Pain on one of my singles before anyone really knew of him. I was the first one to put that to life of having T-Pain on the hook.
What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.
The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.
I found out this summer how to hook up my Xbox 360 in the hotel and get past security. It took me a while to figure out, but I got it now.
A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.
When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
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!
I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook, and you're good.
Of course, I was an insane ECW fan. You don't get this deep into wrestling unless you are obsessed with wrestling so that was the final hook.
There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
I like psycho chicks... Yeah, you hook up with a psycho, you're gonna learn something. First thing you learn is how to sleep with one eye open.
I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.
I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel real, and that's oftentimes not comfortable.
There is a layer of Armaan's voice in the hook line of 'Kar gayi chull' and it was mainly his voice there, but he wasn't credited in the track.
In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.
I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.
Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface.
As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular “hook” upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.
That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.
If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.
A big hook can be great; you'll have a big opening. But if you haven't got the right foundation, you're never going to keep that train on the tracks.
'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you.
Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have for an indie film but it also have some kind of hook.
I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.
You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.
A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.
I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.
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.