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When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Julliard, and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.
Deborah Kara Unger
School
National
Dramatic
Out
High
High School
Had
Scholarships
Institute
Academic
Academy
Audition
Australia
Trying
Artistic
Graduated
Arts
Decided
Figure
Sydney
Royal
I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.
Deborah Tannen
Myself
Writing
Language
Enjoy
Think
Writer
Academic
Metaphor
Getting
Just
Much
Really
Right
Playing
Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.
Dennis Prager
Religion
Political
Other
More
Through
Taken
Over
Academic
Schools
Western
Than
Graduate
Any
Influenced
Literary
Far
Therefore
Elementary
Media
Elite
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
Derek Bok
Achievement
Game
College
Important
Say
Kind
Some
About
Highest
Academic
End
Up
Grades
Going
After
Mean
Means
Who
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.
Derek Bok
Life
Time
Learning
Writing
Training
Research
Spend
Books
Though
Enter
Entirely
More
Almost
Academic
Most
Devoted
Conducting
Than
Experiments
Far
Teaching
Who
Even
I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while fully respecting the academic standards of the University.
Derek Bok
Commitment
Strong
Opportunity
Action
Believe
Our
Respecting
Harvard
Must
Academic
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Reflects
While
Standards
Fully
Program
University
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.
Derek Walcott
Good
Age
Writing
Strong
Mother
Father
Background
Write
He
Academic
Schoolteacher
Very
Very Early Age
Died
Childhood
Used
Early
Early Age
I'm very competitive and academic.
Dove Cameron
Academic
Very
Competitive
I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
Eddie Huang
You
Syntax
Academic
Prove
Intelligent
Want
Need
I was always more of an academic than a jock.
Edwin Moses
Jock
More
Academic
Always
Than
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.
Eric Schlosser
Focus
Long
Drawn
Attention
Academic
Been
Psychiatrists
Which
Figure
Even
Elites
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!
Esther Duflo
Needs
Me
You
Woman
Way
Has-Been
Some
Advantage
Academic
Because
Always
Been
Committee
Quota
Fill
I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.
Faith Salie
Think
Paper
Entire
Point
Student
Exclamation
Academic
Years
Used
Ever
I would say that I am an academic in politics. I have never abandoned my academic approach to observe reality, independently from the subject and its constant changes.
Fernando Haddad
Politics
Reality
Changes
Approach
Say
Abandoned
Independently
Would
Constant
Never
Observe
Academic
Am
Subject
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
Flea
Me
Culture
Become
Jazz
Mark
Kind
Through
Academic
Contemporary
American
American Culture
Which
Much
I love Muhlenberg. I'm an academic. I needed a small school with incredible programs and found that here. I learned so much and grew so much in four years.
Frankie Grande
Love
School
Programs
Incredible
Small
Academic
Learned
Years
Grew
Much
Found
Four
Here
Needed
I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.
Freddie Prinze
Me
Class
Fight
School
Bathroom
Bits
Would
See
Guys
Come
Academic
Particularly
Doing
Interested
Cut
Started
I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.
Freema Agyeman
School
No Idea
Point
Pursue
Had
Contacts
Idea
Academic
Because
Got
How
Were
Very
Just
Wanting
Acting
Actually
As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.
Gad Saad
Value
Free
Exchange
Academic
Ideas
Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in the language of the common person so that Joe, who didn't even go to college, can sit down and read my book and get it and apply it to his life.
Gary Chapman
Life
Book
Language
College
Sit
Down
Books
Joe
Write
Academic
Read
Said
Go
His
Years
Years Ago
Years And Years
Person
Get
Did
Common
Want
Who
Even
Apply
Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
Gary Weiss
Emotions
Long
Holding
Numerous
Too
Studies
Investors
Wrong
Wrong Reasons
Academic
Make
Amateur
Losers
Stocks
Whims
Poor
Acting
Reasons
Shown
Buying
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Gavin Bryars
Music
Me
Something
Area
New
Academic
Attracts
New Music
Festivals
Modern
Modern Music
Which
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
Georg Brandes
Friendship
Smile
Me
Natural
Circle
Made
First
Back
Out
Only
Had
New
Academic
Looked
Years
Friendships
Gradually
Experiences
After
Acquaintances
Them
Should
Large
Grow
Grown
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.
George M. Whitesides
Love
You
Nice
Ways
Papers
Intractable
Complexity
Responsible
Outcomes
About
Write
Academic
Academics
Am
Many
Nice Thing
Thing
Fundamentally
Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they encounter academic difficulties.
George Will
Difficulties
Telling
Find
Tend
Open
Academic
How
Mothers
Encounter
Amazingly
Falter
Children
Them
Notes
Who
Bright
Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.
Gilbert Baker
Art
History
Science
Word
Big
Understanding
High
Academic
Making
Very
Flag
Flags
Really
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