I have a longstanding fascination with identifying popular celebrities who are, behind the scenes, overly testy. Whenever I'm with someone who might know - a chauffeur, or a production assistant, or whoever - I tend to ask, "Who is the worst-tempered celebrity you've come across?" To help you find that perfect synonym to inject action and emotion into your dialogue, here are over 270 other words for said: Neutral/multi-purpose words Because we were responsible for the success of This Morning, we became a problem," says Richard. "ITV were basically saying, 'What if they get poached? We've got this brand, this thing called This Morning, but unofficially the brand is Richard and Judy.' The viewers didn't call it This Morning. They called it Richard & Judy. So we became far too identified with the show. I'm not being bigheaded. It's true. They thought, 'This is too important. This makes too much money. If they leave, we might lose this product.' So they got very nervous and precipitated a crisis. This woman called Maureen Duffy - Duffy the Vampire Slayer - came in with a brief to secure the future of This Morning without us. She was charged by David Liddiment at Network Centre, who now..." Usually, reporting of direct speech is something you see in writing. It doesn’t happen as often when people are talking to each other. Direct speech: “I don’t want to enter the water, ever,” she says. “If everyone’s going in the ocean, I’m like, no.”

They may have Britain's most public marriage, but Amanda Ross has never allowed a journalist to be a fly on their wall. When the couple moved from ITV to Channel 4 in 2001, they received more than 200 interview requests, but they granted only a handful, all to celebrity-pandering tabloids, and insisted on full copy approval, down to picture captions and headlines. Blyth, Antonia (December 8, 2022). "The Partnership: 'She Said's Zoe Kazan And Jodi Kantor Discuss How Art Imitated Life In A World-Changing #MeToo Story". Deadline Hollywood. In business, men use more direct statements, while women tend to beat around the bush and are less likely to be heard by their male colleagues. On a more personal level, both men and women tend to be generally unsatisfied with what they hear from their partners during intimate moments. These are just a few facts revealed in this best – selling book as Dr. Glass gives the definitive answer as to why men and women differ so greatly in the area of communication. There seems to be a discrepancy between how Richard believes the world perceives him and how we actually do. We like Richard because he reminds us of how we would be if we were presenting a TV show - all shambling and clumsy - asking odd, silly questions that sometimes work brilliantly. I particularly like this one, to Formula One ace Eddie Irvine: "The driving gets rid of the adrenaline, so what do you do with the testosterone?" I think he thinks everyone admires his Paxman-like steely mind. Plus, the open earpieces are probably a symptom of control-freakery, not that there's anything wrong with that.)Here are 5 simple ways to avoid clunky overuse of ‘he said/she said’: 1. Decide if dialogue tags are necessary

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Meadow is Professor Sir Roy Meadow, whose notorious pronouncement, known as Meadow's Law - "One sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder, unless proven otherwise" - was instrumental in securing Angela's wrongful conviction. Five years later in 1980, while doing my post-doctorate in medical genetics at UCLA School of Medicine, I received a call from a Hollywood producer, who asked me if I knew anything about male and female differences in communication. He asked me if I could help make a male actor sound like a woman.

If you search for alternative dialogue tags to use in your story, you’ll find many lists. While some synonyms for ‘said’ read naturally (such as words conveying volume like ‘whispered’), others come across as overwritten and forced, particularly in the wrong context. Indirect speech: You told me that you had been charging your phone (past perfect continuous) or You told me that you were charging your phone (past continuous). The world-famous astrophysicist Carl Sagan once stated , “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

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Kit and Laura are young and newly in love in the summer of 1999. Kit, who has been chasing solar eclipses since his childhood, convinces Laura to join him on a trek to Cornwall for a festival, during which they're expected to see a total eclipse of the sun. While the weather doesn't quite cooperate to give them the full eclipse experience, it still wows Laura, as she truly understands why Kit finds these events so mesmerizing, and loves being able to share them with the man she loves. I even found myself quoted in Steven Naifeh and Gregory Smiths book Why Can’t Men Open Up (Clarkson Potter, 1984), where they discussed my work in the area of sex differences and communication. Celebrity profiles, which you can find in print magazines and online, can help you find and practice reported speech, too. Celebrity profiles are stories that focus on a famous person. They often include some kind of interview. The writer will usually spend some time describing the person and then mention things that they say; this is when they use reported speech. The book may get a little more melodramatic than it needs to at times, and because certain aspects of the story take a while to unfold, I found myself confused by the behavior of some of the characters. But this was a really well-written book, and Kelly kept me hooked from start to finish. While I could have passed on the jet-lag-induced insomnia, I didn't mind passing the time devouring the remainder of this book.