David Leitch

Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.

American Actor

Paige

I want everyone to know that they can accomplish anything they want at any age if they just be themselves. I want to encourage millions to chase their dreams and to never change. Everyone should also know how to throw a good right hook!

English Athlete

Colin Donnell

So many people have told me that 'Wicked' is their first musical ever and that they're hooked for life. I'm like, 'Wow, you really got it right when you picked this show to be your first one.

Amanda Abbington

If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.

English Actress

Linwood Barclay

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

Canadian Author

Matt Sydal

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.

American Wrestler

Tom Heinsohn

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.

American Athlete

Bill Rancic

I'm hooked on food competition shows. It's unique, different... I definitely understand the importance of strategy.

American Businessman

Isabelle Adjani

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

French Actress

Ted Naifeh

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

American Writer

The noun 'hook' often refers to a tangible object used for hanging items.

Physical Object

'Hooks' aren't always made of metal; they can be plastic or other materials.

Not Always Metal

As a verb, 'hook' suggests grabbing someone's interest in a compelling way.

Capture Attention

Using 'hook' figuratively means to attract someone without a literal hook.

Figurative Hook

'Hook' can describe the action of connecting two things together.

Act of Connecting

In technology, 'hooking into' something means to connect or integrate systems.

Hook in Tech

In arts, a 'hook' is a catchy element that's easily remembered.

Engaging Element

A 'hook' keeps the audience engaged, wanting more.

Keeps Audience

In writing, 'hook' specifies a particular curved stroke style.

Handwriting Feature

A 'hook' can be a unique feature in one's signature.

Signature Quirk

'Hook' can describe a ball moving in a curving trajectory in sports.

Curve in Sports

In golf, a 'hook' is a shot that curves to the left for right-handed players.

Golf Specifics

 If you rarely eat sugar or don't eat much at a time, the effect is similar to that of the balanced meal. But if you eat too much, the dopamine response does not level out. In other words, eating lots of sugar will continue to feel rewarding. In this way, sugar behaves a little bit like a drug. It's one reason people seem to be hooked on sugary foods.

How sugar affects the...

 When people are hooked up to these machines, tasks, such as reading or doing math problems, each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed. But when researchers got the participants to listen to music, they saw fireworks. Multiple areas of their brains were lighting up at once, as they processed the sound,

How playing an...

 you may not realize it, you've taken quite a lot of heroin. And anyone who is watching this anywhere in the world, this is happening. And if what we believe about addiction is right -- those people are exposed to all those chemical hooks -- What should happen? They should become addicts. This has been studied really carefully.

Everything you think you...

 that the seed be freely available. Wouldn't some activists say that this is actually part of the conspiracy? This is the heroin strategy. You seed the stuff, and people have no choice but to be hooked on these seeds forever? There are a lot of conspiracy theories for sure, but it doesn't work that way.

Pamela Ronald: The case...

 He said they use a hook at the back and someone pulls down and then someone uses another hook at the front and the baby's legs are tied together and they pull the legs front and they do this over and over until the baby learns how to do it. He said to me we have to use the bull hook

Inside the Dark World of...

 different ways and from that day I was completely hooked I would find myself in the math lab for hours and months at a time trying to absorb all this incredible beautiful knowledge that I had completely ignored previously in my life well then one day I was in the math

How math saved my life PIPE...

 definitely ready frank's devoted eight years of his life to the billbay it's very close to his heart it is just such a wonderful animal and that's sort of what's hooked me in when i first saw my one in the wild i just thought wow we really need a decent kick in the

Rescuing The Bilbies PIPE...

 So, any air-filled spaces, like a rockfish's swim bladder, or human lungs, will compress as they descend deeper and expand as they ascend. After a fish bites a fisherman's hook and is quickly reeled up to the surface,

The effects of...

 It's basically like trying to breathe, as a doctor said, while having an elephant standing on your chest. So, that idea disappeared. Then I started thinking, would it be possible to hook up a heart/lung bypass machine

How I held my breath for...

 I felt like I stumbled onto one of the last quiet places, somewhere that I found a clarity and a connection with the world I knew I would never find on a crowded beach. I was hooked. I was hooked.