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The bad guy in any good storytelling is always, in some weird way, a mirror for your hero's journey and for the challenges that they are facing and is some weird physical externalization of that fear that the character is holding onto and has to overcome.
Alex Kurtzman
Good
Journey
Character
Challenges
Fear
Overcome
Hero
Mirror
Holding
Way
Bad
Physical
Some
Bad Guy
Guy
Facing
Onto
Weird
Weird Way
Always
Any
Storytelling
Your
If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.
Alex Lifeson
Achievement
Own
Our
Would
Would-Be
Terms
Any
Done
Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page's loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing.
Alex Lifeson
Confidence
Guitarist
Style
Think
Our
Jimmy
Rules
Immense
Rush
No Rules
Had
Days
Like
Look
Him
Loose
His
Any
Influence
Heavy
Wanted
Biggest
Biggest Influence
Page
Zeppelin
Play
Early
Playing
Early Days
I rarely felt or noticed any real divide between girls and boys when I was growing up. Maybe it was because I was so involved in sports and competed with the boys. Maybe it was my mom and dad, who constantly instilled confidence in me and never made me feel as though there were boy activities and girl activities.
Alex Morgan
Mom
Me
Confidence
Sports
Made
Girl
Though
Constantly
Rarely
Divide
Never
Instilled
Feel
Between
Involved
Because
Felt
Boy
Real
Were
Up
Any
Maybe
Noticed
Mom And Dad
Who
Dad
Growing
Activities
Growing Up
However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.
Alex Morrison
Great
Will
First
Advice
Military
Think
Sierra
Way
Sierra Leone
Those
Security
Security Council
Council
First Of All
Forces
Course
However
Provide
Governments
Any
Going
Influence
Happening
Asked
Congo
Organized
Who
Professional
Second
It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.
Alex Newell
Education
World
Impossible
Will
Long
Corner
Know
Spread
Eradicate
Off
Disease
HIV
Any
Stop
Cut
Us
Helps
Services
To be picked for your country at any stage is a massive honour, and to be at a huge tournament likes the Euros is such a bonus.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Country
Stage
Bonus
Honour
Picked
Tournament
Massive
Likes
Huge
Any
Your
In my head, I was like any young kid: 'I'm going to be a footballer.' But at the same time, my mum and dad were making me do my schoolwork, and that was important.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Time
Me
Important
Young
Kid
Head
Footballer
Like
Schoolwork
Making
Were
Same
Any
Going
Same Time
Young Kid
Dad
Mum
Mum And Dad
I see I'm changing the game and opening doors for others, from my beginning from the east end of London. It's not a sob story; it made me the person I am today. It's seeing kids from any area or background you're from. There's a chance; you can make it.
Alex Scott
Today
Me
You
Game
Made
Beginning
Doors
Changing
Others
Background
Kids
East
See
London
Seeing
Area
Opening
Make
Am
End
Person
Any
Story
Sob
Chance
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.
Alex Shoumatoff
You
Rain
People
Met
Adaptive
Other
Easily
More
Only
Smaller
Around
Reduced
Amazon
Forest
Forests
Than
Any
Move
Size
Species
Dozen
Humans
As a quarterback, you certainly don't want to hamstring your team in any way because - I know this more than anyone - you rely so heavily on those playmakers around you.
Alex Smith
You
Way
Those
More
Rely
Know
Because
Around
Quarterback
Than
Any
Want
Anyone
Your
Certainly
Team
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
Alex Tabarrok
Alone
People
Heroes
Action
Others
Virtue
Virtuous
Way
Defines
Self
Clear
Putting
Most
Very
Any
Wants
Hollywood
Then
Means
Capitalists
The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.
Alex Tizon
Work
Time
Me
Become
Tend
Personal
Any
Stories
Length
I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.
Alex Winston
Music
Age
Young
Took
Back
Pretty
Detroit
Outside
Never
Had
Part
Known
Always
Doing
Friends
Bands
Any
Young Age
Wanted
Interested
Activities
Ever
Played
Started
Blake & Murphy were winners, I was a winner, and winners usually gravitate toward each other. They helped me, so I helped them in any way I could. I knew they were able to retain their NXT Tag Team Championship on their own, but when the matches weren't going the way they wanted, I made sure to step in. We were an unstoppable group.
Alexa Bliss
Me
Made
Winner
Own
Group
Other
Way
Able
Blake
Winners
Tag
Could
Retain
Step
Knew
Toward
Unstoppable
Sure
Matches
Were
Any
Going
Wanted
Them
Team
Helped
Each
Gravitate
Murphy
Championship
The one thing that was nice about being an only child is that my friends' parents would always ask me whether I would want any other brothers and sisters? My mom wasn't able to have any more children, and they didn't know that, but I would always say that I can have friends over, and whenever I get sick of them, I can just send them home.
Alexa Bliss
Home
Mom
Me
Parents
Nice
Sick
Other
Say
Would
One Thing
Able
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
About
More
Only
Only Child
Over
Know
Always
Friends
Sisters
Child
Get
Send
Any
Just
Whenever
Being
Children
The One Thing
Want
Whether
Them
Ask
Thing
I'm really excited to build an experience for the receivers. Many of the senders are also receivers, but we initially built the product really for the sender be able to invite their guests, and we didn't have really any receiver experience.
Alexa Hirschfeld
Experience
Build
Guests
Able
Excited
Invite
Also
Built
Any
Really
Product
Many
Initially
Receiver
I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
Alexa Vega
You
Young
Think
Alienate
Has-Been
Kind
More
Through
Supportive
Make
Because
Audience
Always
Been
Years
Roles
Any
Young Actor
So Many Years
Tiptoe
Want
Process
Transition
Your
Hard
Who
Many
Actor
Grown-Up
I don't know how I didn't kill any one of my sisters. For this one horror film we were making, I made my own harness for my sister. I wrapped her in all these ropes, but then also put a noose around her neck and hung her from a tree. Now I think, 'What if my harness didn't work?' I'm so lucky that nothing ever happened.
Alexa Vega
Work
Made
Sister
Own
Nothing
Think
Tree
Harness
Hung
Wrapped
Horror
Horror Film
My Own
Put
Know
Also
Around
How
Making
Were
Sisters
What If
Any
Happened
Then
Ropes
Lucky
Film
Now
Ever
Her
Neck
Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.
Alexa Von Tobel
Finance
Financial
School
Will
College
Mistakes
Seniors
Our
High
Exacerbate
High School
Only
Red
Instruction
Make
Without
Continue
Debt
Personal
Burdens
Graduate
Any
Common
Formal
Who
Many
Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.
Alexa Von Tobel
Education
Finance
Wise
Age
People
Otherwise
Resources
Spending
Tell
Tackle
Know
Majority
Make
Without
How
Bracket
Effectively
Debt
Trustworthy
Personal
Any
Formal
Decisions
Them
Use
Credit
The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.
Alexa Von Tobel
Work
Sooner
Longer
New
Like
Most
Return
Because
Without
Mothers
Go
Salaries
Than
Afford
Any
Common
Reason
We never intend to lose our jobs, break up with our live-in loves, or face any number of the curveballs life throws our way. But they happen all the same, so have a bailout plan just in case. Sounds corny, but I call this the 'freedom fund' because it gives you the freedom to get out of a jam without climbing into debt.
Alexa Von Tobel
Life
Freedom
You
Face
Lose
Corny
Our
Way
Out
Jobs
Case
Gives
Throws
Never
Bailout
Call
Because
Without
Climbing
Sounds
Up
Debt
Get
Intend
Same
Any
Just
Jam
Happen
Break
Break Up
Loves
Plan
Fund
Number
As a former prosecutor, I will always be on the side of the law and not any particular constituency.
Alexander Acosta
Law
Will
Side
Prosecutor
Particular
Always
Any
Former
At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.
Alexander Chee
Writing
Sometimes
First
Living
Resources
Way
Libraries
Would
Fine
Touch
Having
More
More Or Less
Push
Institutional
Mostly
Access
Making
Making A Living
Any
Maybe
While
Aside
Straightforward
Teaching
Less
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
Alexander Downer
Me
People
Father
Reflect
Politician
Sense
Else
Otherwise
Relative
Would
Would-Be
Able
No Idea
Never
Idea
Like
Well
Because
Felt
Answer
How
Doing
Question
Up
Any
Often
Just
Grew
Anything
Anything Else
Inability
Ask
Asked
Really
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Away
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