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My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.
Nicola Griffith
Website
Me
First
Took
Ran
Email
Would
Feature
Readers
Answer
Questions
Up
Fancy
Ask
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'
Nicolas Roeg
Love
You
Woman
Fight
Book
Men
Wild
Immediately
Plot
Know
Just
Frontier
Ask
Why
Two
You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.
Nicole Kidman
Me
You
Fear
Too
Pretty
About
Pretty Much Anything
Feels
Most
Go
Personal
Being
Anything
Little
Ask
Asked
Much
Things
I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
Nigella Lawson
Wine
Pour
First
Restaurants
Never
Waiter
Taste
Just
Ask
I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.
Nikolai Gogol
Me
Others
Everything
Immature
Guilty
Distress
Brought
Pardon
General
Attack
Towards
Openly
Know
Been
Provoked
Which
Them
Ask
Produced
Many
Works
Even
Displeasure
Here
I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also of those who humbly do not believe in the efficacy of their prayers, as well as of those who do not believe in prayer at all and even consider it useless.
Nikolai Gogol
Life
Me
Prayer
Life Is A
Single
Beginning
Believe
Consider
Everyone
Bishops
Those
Russia
Also
Well
Pray
Pray For
Prayers
Efficacy
Ask
Useless
Who
Whole
Even
Whose
Humbly
People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.
Nina Garcia
Life
Me
Technology
Change
Learning
Age
People
New Things
Young
Live
Changed
Other
Everyone
Tell
Would
Constantly
More
Could
Exciting
Feel
New
Make
None
Always
Era
Any
Where
Them
Ask
If I Could
Much
Lucky
Keeps
Things
It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum.
Noah Baumbach
Life
Funny
Day
Me
History
Natural
People
Try
Real Life
Films
Analytical
Analyze
No Idea
Except
Idea
Terms
Real
Exhibit
Go
Very
Whale
Stood
Just
Natural History
Mean
Mean People
Them
Ask
Things
Museum
We have this pre-show thing where we all get into a huddle and yell, 'Pop, pop, it's showtime,' and I have to give credit to Bruno Mars for that one. I started doing it after I became obsessed with '24K Magic.' I want to ask Bruno if he'll ever come to my huddle with me!
Noah Cyrus
Me
Mars
Magic
Give
He
Obsessed
Come
Became
Doing
Yell
Get
Where
Want
After
Ask
Pop
Showtime
Ever
Credit
Thing
Started
People keep asking me if the Boosh is coming back, and I say, 'I hope so.' I'm not bothered people ask me about it. TV's become quite disposable, so to make something that lasts a bit of time - it won't last forever - is quite nice.
Noel Fielding
Hope
Time
Me
People
Become
Nice
Lasts
Back
Say
Bit
TV
About
Something
Bothered
Make
Coming
Forever
Quite
Ask
Asking
Disposable
Keep
Last
On my show, nobody's being paid more than me. I don't ask what they're being paid - I just make sure they're not getting more than me.
Noel Fielding
Me
More
Nobody
Make
Sure
Than
Getting
Just
Being
Ask
Paid
Show
A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work.
Nolan Bushnell
Life
Work
Good
Try
Reading
Interviewer
Out
Find
Able
About
Outside
Passionate
Them
Ask
Really
Fun
The only question we should ask is, 'Are they good?' I've met great actors, black and white, and I've met bad actors, black and white.
Noma Dumezweni
Good
Great
Black
Black And White
Met
White
Bad
Only
Question
Ask
Should
Actor
People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes.
Nomar Garciaparra
Me
Fight
People
Matter
Feeling
Shoes
Too
Say
Kid
Small
Liked
How
Were
Tapping
Just
Being
Them
Ask
Toes
Started
I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.
Noreena Hertz
You
World
Complicated
Believe
Assume
Range
Disciplines
Reduce
Mathematical
Get
Where
Formula
Ask
Help
Whole
Start
As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it.
O. T. Fagbenle
Best
You
Man
Conversation
Feminism
Assumptions
Run
Tricky
About
Risk
Having
Foot
Putting
Always
Questions
Ask
Your
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
Octavia Spencer
You
People
Song
Those
Favourite
Give
Five
Going
Just
Just One
Ask
Your
I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
Oliver North
Me
People
Every
Honestly
Other
Would
About
Something
Put
Clear
Make
Reveal
Answered
Question
So-Called
Want
Ask
Jeopardy
Things
People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.
Olivia Wilde
Director
People
Nervous
Back
Bite
Would
See
About
Something
Casting
Know
Advise
Around
Doing
Rocking
Lips
Roll
Them
Forth
Ask
Asking
My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
Olivia Williams
Me
Getting Older
Wrinkles
Skin
Older
Everything
Immoral
Some
Feel
Like
Smiling
Terrible
Because
Does
Sound
American
Getting
May
Might
Ask
Much
Body
Card
There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?'
Om Malik
Music
Good
You
Better
Somewhere
Relaxing
Favorite
Kind
Eyebrow
Beach
Martini
Makes
Heard
Sipping
Than
Lounge
While
Ask
Your
Good Chance
Raise
Chance
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
Oriana Fallaci
Time
You
Every
Arafat
Lies
Minutes
He
Him
Himself
Always
Five
Ask
Even
Plays
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
Orlando Bloom
You
Everyone
Say
Says
About
He
Prince
Hamlet
Were
To Be Or Not To Be
Might
Ask
So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'
Ornette Coleman
Me
You
Improvise
Write
Instance
Instrument
Came
Want
Ask
Why
Play
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
Orson Welles
Will
Own
Restaurant
Allow
Never
Like
Particularly
Talking
Waiters
Dishes
Ask
Ever
Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
Oscar Isaac
You
Guitar
Say
Most
Years
Owned
Mean
Them
Ask
Really
Actor
Play
Played
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