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One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
James Buchan
Setting
Settings
Admirable
About
Features
Foreign
Stories
Personnel
Novelists
Wholly
British
John Brown was clearly flawed in real life. He did some terrible things, but he did some things none of us would have had the heart to do. His moral leanings were unquestionably admirable.
James McBride
Life
Heart
Real Life
Moral
Would
Admirable
John
John Brown
Some
Some Things
Brown
Unquestionably
Had
He
Clearly
Terrible
None
Real
Were
His
Did
Flawed
Us
Things
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Jean Piaget
Game
Own
Extremely
Say
Complex
Rules
Complex System
System
Admirable
Constitute
Laws
Instance
Contains
Institutions
Most
Boy
Jurisprudence
Children
Social
Social Institutions
Games
Code
Marbles
Played
McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.
Jim Cantalupo
Old
Consistent
Admirable
Able
Record
Pretty
Deliver
Had
Almost
Track
Track Record
Years
Sales
Being
McDonald
I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor.
Joe Lo Truglio
Hope
You
Reputation
Think
Would
Admirable
Someone
Being
Anything
Gained
Actor
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti
Life
Great
Risks
Power
Too
Great Idea
Admirable
Hopes
Gives
He
Idea
Himself
Glory
His
Personal
Just
Avail
Who
Even
Serve
There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating.
Julie Klausner
Good
Food
Nature
People
Animals
Good Intentions
Our
Way
Extremist
Admirable
Some
Eating
About
Put
Devotion
Well-Being
Often
Behind
Intentions
Crap
Conversion
Sanctimonious
Justified
Skepticism
View
Ignore
Hard
Manufacturers
Many
Including
The short form, for those people who can master it - and I am by no means one of them - it is very admirable, because it is really hard to tell stories that can stick with the audience and still be between 5 and 30 minutes long. I think it's a real challenge.
Karyn Kusama
People
Challenge
Long
Master
Think
Those
Tell
Admirable
Minutes
Between
Because
Stick
Audience
Am
Real
Still
Very
Short
Form
Stories
Them
Really
Means
Hard
Who
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.
Katherine Helmond
Life
Age
Women
Think
Back
Admirable
Brought
Tendency
Major
Come
Major Role
Advisable
Accepting
Passive
Been
Revert
Up
Role
Forward
Play
Recede
Pull
Adolescents show off. That's another way of wanting to connect with people. It's not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.
Kenneth Lonergan
Alone
People
Behavior
Show Off
Else
Consider
Way
Admirable
Some
Someone
Adolescent
Generally
Another
Another Way
Off
Very
Human
Being
Human Behavior
Wanting
Being Alone
Means
Aspect
Show
Connect
Connecting
I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.
Kristen Stewart
Beautiful
Good
Good Things
World
Amazing
Admirable
Angelina Jolie
Talented
Like
Most
Does
Person
Want
Movie
Movie Star
Successful
Who
Star
Things
Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.
Laura Donnelly
Work
Hard Work
Me
People
Seen
Energy
Benchmark
Incredible
Everything
Admirable
Admire
Spirit
More
No-One
Generosity
Cate Blanchett
Terms
Also
Judi Dench
Always
Been
Dench
His
Than
Hugh
Worked
Really
Hard
Her
During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
Marie Curie
Me
Anxiety
Long
Year
Evident
Admirable
Spirit
Seem
Habit
Had
No-One
He
Written
Sincerity
Know
Wrote
Pierre
Make
Him
Concise
Were
Very
Form
Them
Companion
Expression
Letters
Desired
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
Michael Enzi
Faith
Try
Will
Admirable
See
Troops
Support
Make
Make A Difference
Spouses
Praying
Up
Families
Difference
Us
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
Michael Palin
Day
People
Thought
Saw
One Day
Admirable
Could
Maybe
Being
Them
Novelists
I support children's charities; I just don't want them around me. It's not very admirable, but it's the truth.
Miriam Margolyes
Truth
Me
Admirable
Charities
Support
Around
Very
Just
Children
Want
Them
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
Natasha Trethewey
Best
Me
Gift
Admirable
Seems
Poems
Writers
Genuine
His
Selves
Person
Often
Then
Page
Who
Now
Deeply
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Pierre Curie
War
Great
People
Destruction
Men
Criminals
Characteristic
Admirable
Lead
Nobel
Perform
Powerful
Also
Terrible
Discoveries
Hands
Tasks
Means
Explosives
Help
Who
'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.
Richard Corliss
Burger
Harmonious
Defined
Out
Neil
Admirable
Some
Divergent
Directed
Segregated
Laying
Boundaries
Veronica
Six
Grim
Dystopia
Regions
Inhabitants
Skills
Roth
Displayed
Novelist
Seriousness
'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage ShakyCam style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style.
Richard Corliss
Seriously
Style
Few
Young
Visual
Admirable
Some
Silliness
Steady
Instead
Taking
Employing
Attractive
Genre
Smooth
Hand
Young Actors
Who
Elements
Actor
The ACA - popularly known as 'Obamacare' - has been an important step forward toward an admirable goal: providing access to health insurance for all Americans. But like many reforms generated by the political process, the ACA is problematic.
Ron Williams
Health
Political
Important
All Americans
Has-Been
Obamacare
Admirable
Step
Step Forward
Toward
Like
Known
Health Insurance
Access
Insurance
Important Step
Been
Goal
Providing
Political Process
American
Reforms
Problematic
Process
Forward
Many
At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people.
Sarah MacLean
Love
Heart
People
Better
Heroes
Stronger
Every
Heroines
Evolution
Characters
Admirable
Lies
More
Only
Perfect
Through
Match
Romance
Successful
Novel
Grow
Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.
Sebastian Thrun
Education
World
Higher Education
Too
Way
States
System
Admirable
Restrictive
High-Quality
Higher
Student
Never
Most
Access
Limited
Got
Very
Get
Hard
United
United States
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
Stephen Ambrose
Clark
Tried
Easy
Admirable
Fair
Likable
Always
Subjects
Eisenhower
Lewis
Lewis And Clark
You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best... It's admirable.
Suzanne Brockmann
Best
You
Training
Passion
Become
Admirable
Want
Endure
Really
Seal
Navy
Need
It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
T. C. Boyle
Needs
Characters
Admirable
Primarily
True
None
Up
Maybe
Hold
Satirist
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