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On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.
Jessica Brown Findlay
Work
You
Sometimes
Job
Way
Out
Characters
Easy
Find
Shallow
Most
Parts
Surface
Person
Apart
Interesting
Work Out
Really
Dismiss
Certain
Act
Your
Actress
Why
Pull
My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.
Jessica Chastain
Me
Took
Inspiration
She
Always
Encouraged
Person
Theater
Grandmother
Act
Who
Believed
When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.
Jill Scott
People
First
Would
Folks
Some
Could
Know
Became
Because
How
Go
Were
Going
Scream
Famous
Where
Wanted
If I Could
Act
We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.
Jill Soloway
Women
People
Hero
Think
Brooks
See
Allen
Perfect
Neurotic
Perfectly
Look
Annoying
Him
Been
Male
Up
Grew
Woody
Woody Allen
Center
Story
Anyway
Craving
Movies
Root
Really
Act
Who
Albert
Watching
Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.
Jim Carrey
Myself
Angry
Me
People
Old
Nights
Would
Would-Be
Some
Doing
Trying
Getting
Screaming
Where
Literally
Act
Standing
Actually
Violent
Defend
Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.
Jim Crace
Fruit
Fear
Trees
Though
Would
Would-Be
Brother
Feared
Always
Caught
Climbing
Australia
Imprisoned
Grabbing
Loved
Sent
Act
Even
I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
Jim Dale
Stage
Tremendous
Seventeen
Saw
Kid
Cripple
Guilty
Clap
Would
Some
More
Feel
Because
Boy
Limp
Off
End
Walking
Than
Get
Just
Burst
Poor
Act
Applause
I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I portray in my act. But that stuff that I dislike, it's pretty sincere.
Jim Gaffigan
Food
Cake
Enjoy
Say
Bacon
Would
Eat
Some
Pretty
About
Stuff
Sincere
Like
Talk
Lot
Than
Dislike
Really
Act
Less
Portray
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
Jim Gerlach
Today
Deliberation
Voted
Patriot
Patriot Act
After
Act
Careful
Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.
Jim Gerlach
Law
September
Tools
Our
Law Enforcement
Threats
Following
More
Attacks
Weeks
Since
Terrorist
Enactment
Been
Families
Than
Stop
Patriot
Patriot Act
Enforcement
Act
Used
Communities
The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.
Jim Jordan
Tired
People
Money
Spending
Spending Money
Out-Of-Control
Get
American
Stop
Order
Want
American People
Act
Washington
Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
Jim Mattis
You
Enemies
Out
Immoral
Some
More
Take
Than
Create
Act
There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.
Jim Piddock
Family
Nature
Three
Beginning
Every
Tree
Structure
Direction
Almost
Traditional
End
Branches
Infinite
Middle
Different
Episodes
Act
Explore
While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.
Jim Ryun
Problem
Beginning
Taxpayer
Deficit
Deficit Reduction
Solutions
Easy
Direction
Most
Obvious
Reduction
Dollars
Reforms
Gets
While
Commonsense
Us
Act
Right
Started
Right Direction
Save
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
Jim Saxton
Mistake
Protection
Habitat
Drastic
Critical
About
Percent
Protecting
Opinion
Provisions
Endangered
Endangered Species
Endangered Species Act
Act
Species
Eliminate
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.
Jim Talent
People
Circle
Whatever
Interview
Virtues
States
Must
Ability
General
Compromised
Allies
Had
Make
Within
Dealing
Go
Commander
His
Stone
Rolling
Rolling Stone
Represent
Afghanistan
Decisions
Act
Who
Strategist
United
United States
I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
Jim Webb
Dangerous
Our
Air
Atmosphere
Something
Classify
Clean
Clean Air
Am
Intended
Convinced
Act
Regulate
Ever
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Basic
I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.
Jimmy Barnes
Healing
Writing
Long
Down
Books
Way
Healing Process
Overdue
Because
Dealing
Demons
Been
Sitting
Process
Act
Started
I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.
Jimmy Fallon
Like
Got
Just
Story
Act
The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.
Jo Bonner
Those
Liberties
Civil
Total
Civil Liberties
General
Inspector
Individual
Had
Taken
Since
Instituted
Reviews
Provisions
Reports
Six
Place
Act
Actions
Found
Based
Zero
Violation
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
Joan Baez
Key
Dread
Fresh
How
Nostalgia
Act
Show
Keep
In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.
Joan Didion
Saying
Me
Change
People
Writing
Mind
Aggressive
Other
Way
Ways
See
Oneself
Hostile
Imposing
Listen
Act
Your
Many
Even
Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.
Joanne Liu
Best
Own
State
Security
Risk
Remote
Motivation
Friends
Nations
Epidemic
Interests
Act
Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.
Jocko Willink
Day
Every Day
Every
Out
Major
Balancing
Act
Figure
Coordinate
I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.
Jodie Foster
Love
Part
Like
Make
Because
Process
Movies
Act
I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.
Jodie Sweetin
Time
Any
Again
Act
Full
Full-Time
Ever
Desire
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