'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.
Brian Keene
MeStoryRealityShortPlayIsland
We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.
Larry Ellison
WaterEnergyAgricultureIsland
'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
MeGameComedyMonkeyKindIsland
My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
Idina Menzel
ParentsStoryLongIslandBoring
I had come from a middle-class family in Port Washington, Long Island, and I was really clueless about Wall Street. My first job there I basically got fired from.
Anthony Scaramucci
FamilyJobLongWallStreetIsland
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
Gabriel Basso
VacationWoodsFeetYouIslandDeer
You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.
Wyclef Jean
DayYouKnowIslandModernSwagger
My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
Cara Delevingne
WeekDreamPhoneGoIslandSome
The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
ColdWeaknessIslandSpiritHeroes
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
Dan Quayle
HawaiiIslandRightAlwaysRole
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
Paul Theroux
PlaceGeographyIslandUpBeen
'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.
Sherwood Schwartz
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One of my favorite books was 'The Book of Immortality' by Adam Leith Gollner, which talks about cheating death and life extension and frames with a story that David Copperfield finds a fountain of youth on an island he bought.
Scott Snyder
LifeDeathYouthBookStoryIsland
The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.
Thomas Frank
HeroPlantsNewThreeIslandRight
When I was eight or nine years old, my older cousin took me to the St. George Theatre on Staten Island to see a Bruce Lee movie and a Jim Kelly movie. Those were my first martial-arts films, and I fell in love with the genre back then.
Rza
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My most successful album happened back in the mid-'90s, pre-Internet times, with 'Songs For A Blue Guitar.' We were supported by Island Records; we toured a lot. Songs were licensed to TV commercials and movies.
Mark Kozelek
BlueGuitarBackMoviesIslandMost
Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs. That's blackness to me.
Luvvie Ajayi
StruggleMeIslandKnowingNation
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
Leos Carax
ThoughtCinemaReadyIslandHowOh
I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.
Kevin Connolly
ProudLongIslandWhereLong Island
The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.
Jerry Van Dyke
MotherCarIslandLikeReadScript
Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.
Gus Van Sant
DeathWeirdIslandCaliforniaBigger
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne
ManIslandPieceEvery ManEvery
Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced.
Gina Raimondo
ProblemsIslandSystemPensionFaced
Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.
John Lydon
BetterImmigrationPlaceIslandFlow
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