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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
Alan King
Book
Words
Own
Stage
Else
Exactly
Ability
Someone
Absorb
Make
Doing
Story
Your
I have the ability to clear the decks and focus on what's happening in the moment. And I get to spend my life doing what I love to do.
Alan Menken
Life
Love
Focus
My Life
Spend
Ability
Clear
Doing
Get
Happening
Deck
Moment
The only thing... in-store retailing has that online doesn't have is it has the ability to touch, smell, feel, and experience.
Alan Patricof
Experience
Smell
Ability
Touch
Online
Only
Retailing
Feel
The Only Thing
Thing
One of the great things about unions is they're member driven and give us the great ability to both lead and follow at the same time.
Alan Rosenberg
Time
Great
Great Things
Unions
Member
Ability
Follow
About
Give
Both
Driven
Lead
Same
Same Time
Us
Things
The bottom line is that we cannot sit idle as unparalleled rules and regulations significantly restrict our rights and ability to care for our families.
Alan Wilson
Rights
Care
Sit
Our
Rules
We Cannot
Unparalleled
Ability
Restrict
Bottom
Bottom Line
Idle
Line
Families
Cannot
Regulations
Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.
Alan Zweibel
Funny
World
Way
Compliment
Ability
Only
Accepted
Around
Labeled
Being
Regarding
Whether
Acquired
Us
Innate
I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then, later on, I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all. When you have the ability to live that life, to some extent you find out that they don't have any magic cure for everything.
Alana Stewart
Life
You
People
Thought
Big
Live
Everything
Later
Out
Find
Ability
Some
Magazines
Magic
Had
Look
Looked
Houses
Up
Cure
Models
Any
Grew
Poor
Then
Used
Extent
It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.
Albert Bandura
People
Our
Moral
Ability
Cruel
How
Explain
Next
Engage
Standards
Moment
Helps
Compassionate
I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.
Albert Finney
Great
You
Important
Think
Telling
Ability
Seems
Something
Great Qualities
Simply
Feel
Like
Qualities
Tim
Doing
Very
Get
Quite
Being
Sketch
No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.
Alethea Kontis
Thought
Everyone
Laugh
Ability
Superpower
Had
No-One
Wrong
Enchanted
Proved
Itself
Disney
The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
Alex Berenson
Control
Ability
Rates
Fed
Primary
Over
Economy
Short-Term
Interest
Interest Rates
Lower
Raise
I love the freedom of voice-over and the ability to play multiple characters I could never play in real life: a hot young woman, a little boy.
Alex Borstein
Life
Love
Freedom
Woman
Real Life
Young
Characters
Ability
Voice-Over
Could
Never
Hot
Boy
Real
Little
Young Woman
Multiple
Play
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
Alex Flinn
Time
Great
Me
Great Deal
Believe
Ability
See
Having
Writer
Empathy
Well
Another
Deal
Anyone
Hard
Viewpoint
Hard Time
Served
People know there's more than one side to me. You can have beauty and brains and athletic ability. You can switch up the cleats for heels once in a while. You can do both.
Alex Morgan
Me
You
People
Beauty
Side
Once
Athletic
Ability
More
Both
Know
Brains
Up
Than
While
Heels
Switch
VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.
Alexandra Adornetto
Diversity
Other
Recognise
System
Ability
Exam
Exams
Allow
Students
Written
Fails
Most
Demonstrate
Subjects
Than
Form
Mean
Skills
Showcase
Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.
Alexandra Adornetto
Work
Hope
Challenges
Invention
Reflect
Beginning
Our
Entertain
Possibly
Ability
Exam
Results
Part
Deal
How
Articulate
List
Just
Cannot
Skills
Speakers
Team
Interpersonal
Here
By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.
Alexandra Petri
Disagree
Lose
Our
Those
Ourselves
Ability
Opinions
Beliefs
Whose
Defend
When combining the elements on the Total Guide Solution, we believe we are positioning it to be the starting point for consumers to discover and enjoy digital entertainment on their television. And our name changed to Rovi embodied the ability to be that homepage for consumer search through the TV.
Alfred Amoroso
Entertainment
Digital
Believe
Enjoy
Positioning
Changed
Our
Guide
Television
TV
Embodied
Solution
Ability
Total
Point
Through
Consumer
Consumers
Combining
Name
Discover
Search
Elements
Starting
Starting Point
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence
Apprehend
Distinct
Ability
Wisely
Quickness
Which
Capacity
Act
Thing
I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.
Ali Krieger
Best
Knowledge
Power
Community
Every
Defined
Recognize
Member
Out
Ability
Only
Football
Part
Leaders
Feel
Like
Sport
Make
Make A Difference
Difference
Coaches
Fortunate
Who
Many
Teams
Bring
Corporations always are controlling things, and we have the ability every day to do something about that. Every day.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Day
Every Day
Controlling
Every
Corporations
Ability
About
Something
Always
Things
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Alice Walker
Best
Care
Responsibility
Rest
Young
Ability
Protect
Elder
Planet
Americas
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Alice Walker
Faith
People
Behavior
Sense
Finally
Ability
Makes
Understand
Always
Been
Infinite
Anything
Justified
Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
Alicia Keys
Myself
Me
Big
Paper
Pen
Ability
Put
Clearly
Most
Blessings
Also
Verbally
Up
Times
Wall
Curses
Your
Express
Expressing
Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.
Alicia Machado
Love
Women
Feelings
Fall
Our
Ability
More
Terms
Women Are
Little
Express
Assertive
For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
Alison Gopnik
Hope
Future
Regret
Better
Guilt
Past
Live
Worlds
Our
Worse
Possible
Ability
About
Cost
Been
May
Human
Cursed
In The Past
Might
Plan
Much
Actual
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