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My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.
Paul Haggis
Family
Better
Others
Our
Say
Kids
Pretend
Some
About
Price
Never
Almost
Than
Just
Us
Paid
Career
The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.
Paul Hirsch
You
Key
Will
Sense
Easily
Visual
More
Almost
Almost Anything
Track
Accept
Makes
Sound
Audiences
Jumps
Than
Anything
Much
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.
Paul Johnson
Great
Knowledge
Law
Will
Benefit
Relatively
Exactly
Absolutely
Almost
Combination
Quest
Rewarded
Where
Public
Certainty
Now
Foundation
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
Paul Lynde
Comedy
Stretched
Must
Exaggerated
Almost
Always
Realism
Ludicrous
Believable
I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.
Paul McGann
Time
Spend
Way
Television
Find
Only
Absolutely
Almost
Almost All
Front
Resent
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
Paul Sarbanes
Work
History
Sometimes
Will
Important
More
Exception
Students
Almost
Attention
Although
Without
Than
American
Gets
Done
Committees
Legislative
Where
American History
Place
Body
Paid
Floor
Recall
I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
Paul Simon
Good
Good Job
Job
Satisfied
Think
Everything
Say
Almost
Almost Everything
Like
Majority
Very
Done
Often
I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Cinema
Long
Invent
Lost
Think
Tool
Cinematic
Almost
Obviously
Around
Been
Flashback
One of the things you will notice about the book of Mark is that if you read through it in one setting, you will be breathing hard at the end. Literally, Mark has set up this book in a way that it is almost like several snapshots of Jesus Christ.
Paul Washer
You
Book
Christ
Will
Setting
Mark
Way
Several
One Of The Things
About
Through
Almost
Like
Read
End
Up
Literally
Breathing
Notice
Hard
Things
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Set
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
Paulo Coelho
Work
Love
Soul
Too
Everything
Eye
Eye Contact
About
Having
My Soul
Except
Contact
Almost
Almost Everything
Reader
Knows
Audience
Am
Conferences
Front
Who
Shy
In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.
Payal Kadakia
Challenges
Startup
Else
Otherwise
Would
Someone
Part
Exciting
Almost
Most
Done
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey
Life
People
Sometimes
My Life
Would
Rather
Take
Almost
Years
Than
Moment
Away
Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.
Pedro Almodovar
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Other
Way
Visitor
Stay
Seem
Seems
Hospitals
Almost
Does
Pass
Exist
Same
Places
Even
I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
Peggy Johnson
Time
Business
Made
Big
Before
Sense
Engineering
Side
Spent
Joining
Almost
Shift
Years
Up
Very
Microsoft
Grew
Business Side
Company
Presidents have a right to certain prerogatives, including the expectation of a certain deference. He's the president; this is history. But we seem to have come a long way since Ronald Reagan was regularly barked at by Sam Donaldson, almost literally, and the president shrugged it off.
Peggy Noonan
History
Long
Expectation
President
Way
Presidents
Seem
He
Long Way
Almost
Since
Come
Reagan
Off
Sam
Literally
Ronald Reagan
Certain
Regularly
Including
Right
Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
Penelope Spheeris
Music
Impossible
Out
About
Almost
New
Go
Form
Film
Now
I haven't felt like I ever had a chance to blossom into the player and the person I want to be in Orlando. It's almost like I've been held down every time.
Penny Hardaway
Time
Down
Every
Every Time
Had
Almost
Like
Felt
Been
Blossom
Person
Want
Held
Ever
Orlando
Player
Chance
My time in England is where I have felt truly like a footballer, and I have put my name among the best players. I'm very proud to have played almost 400 games with Liverpool.
Pepe Reina
Time
Best
My Time
Put
Almost
Footballer
Name
Like
Felt
Proud
Truly
Very
Where
Games
England
Liverpool
Among
Played
Players
Being in a career and going from highlight to highlight and playing a lot of matches you go through it and think it's normal when you play in front of 60,000 and you almost want to vomit in front of every game.
Per Mertesacker
You
Game
Every
Think
Through
Almost
Highlight
Vomit
Matches
Go
Normal
Lot
Front
Going
Being
Want
Play
Playing
Career
For almost 15 years, professional football is about yourself: How can I improve? How can I make myself better? Before winning a game was the short-term reward that meant everything. Now, I can look at the bigger picture.
Per Mertesacker
Myself
Game
Yourself
Better
Reward
Picture
Before
Everything
About
Winning
Football
Almost
Look
Make
How
Years
Improve
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Short-Term
Meant
Professional
Professional Football
Now
Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.
Perfume Genius
Looking
Painting
Circles
Almost
Like
Blush
Victorian
Fun
I like when I tweet about Tony Hawk. A lot of times, people think it's true; like, I've tweeted about having lunch with him a lot, and people are like, 'Oh, how was he?' or, like, 'Do you have a pic?' I don't know how to explain it. He's right at the level where people could almost believe it, but it's also a really weird pairing.
Perfume Genius
You
People
Believe
Lunch
Think
About
Having
Hawk
Could
He
True
Almost
Weird
Like
Know
Also
Him
How
Lot
Times
Times People
Oh
Where
Explain
Really
Tweet
Right
Level
Tony
It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.
Pete Docter
First
Every
Animation
Almost
Weird
Up
Same
Goes
Being
Ends
Storyboard
Worked
Sequence
Film
A stand-up act is almost like a pool. You know what I mean? It's like a pool, and you're always skimming little leaves out of it, messing with the chlorine level, putting up umbrellas. You're trying to make one little stagnant body of water perfect. Whereas a late-night show is like a river, always moving forward.
Pete Holmes
You
Moving Forward
Water
Pool
Late-Night
Out
Perfect
River
Almost
Putting
Like
Know
Make
Messing
Always
Leaves
Up
Trying
Whereas
Stagnant
Little
Moving
Mean
Body
Act
Show
Forward
Level
Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that way, a stand-up is similar to almost any profession. It's very simply just someone who wants to be heard and live authentically and express themselves.
Pete Holmes
Thoughts
Human Being
Feelings
Live
Every
Relate
Validated
Way
Someone
Similar
Simply
Almost
Accepted
Heard
Very
Any
Human
Rewarded
Just
Being
Wanting
Wants
Themselves
Who
Profession
Express
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
Pete du Pont
Great
Family
Business
Dangerous
Father
Ancestors
Has-Been
Gunpowder
Both
Almost
Come
Great-Grandfather
Were
Been
His
Years
Very
Grandfather
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