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There's the right person, or right people, for each other. There is that order that's searching to be found but, I think, it's not as if everything is going to be automatic. So, people could really be meant for each other and its goes awry; or they could have to learn or develop and grow up together. Grow to be right together.
Whit Stillman
Together
People
Right Person
Think
Other
Right People
Everything
Could
Develop
Learn
Up
Person
Goes
Going
Order
Automatic
Really
Meant
Each
Grow
Grow Up
Searching
Found
Right
Awry
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
Adam Grant
People
Desperate
Employees
Become
Gone
White
Help Others
Others
Complex
Givers
Attempt
Develop
Instead
Support
Knight
Over
Well-Intentioned
Hovering
Causing
Provide
End
Up
Managers
Helicopter
Help
Many
Workplace
Awry
Harm
It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
Moby
Sometimes
Matter
Own
Consequences
Too
Addict
Dramatically
Benign
Circumstances
Responsible
Easy
Fingers
My Own
Point
How
Go
Ultimately
Tragic
Decisions
Awry
I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.
Melina Matsoukas
Sometimes
Like
Provocative
Goes
Create
Works
Imagery
Awry
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Nikolai Gogol
Blame
Face
Looking
Glass
Use
Your
Awry
Sentimental is not bad, but it’s probably the most likely to go awry. It’s the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just don’t want it to be maudlin.
Neal Brennan
Bad
Something
Most
Likely
Go
End
Up
Maudlin
Just
Being
Want
Sentimental
Hardest
Awry
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
Don Bluth
Business
Animation
Executives
Understand
Making
Go
Artistic
Decisions
Things
Awry
So many things in my life have gone awry.
Frances Arnold
Life
My Life
Gone
Many
Things
Awry
Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
Nancy Meyers
Funny
Character
Long
Sense
Awareness
Everybody
Out
Having
Writer
Shape
Puzzle
Know
Look
Make
How
Been
Yes
Fix
Getting
Going
Romantic
Movies
Mean
Them
Creating
Hard
Figuring
Right
Things
Awry
I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
Rose McGowan
Seen
Wrong
Wrong Choices
Making
Go
Choices
Many
Actor
Awry
Early
Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.
Christopher Jackson
History
Understanding
Our
Tell
Only
Part
Goes
Story
Awry
If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment.
Eric Maskin
Government
Will
Otherwise
Market
Would
Badly
Prospect
Come
Make
Repayment
Go
Anticipate
Imprudent
May
Banks
Little
Should
Rescue
Credit
Awry
Loans
Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.
Emily Martin
Gone
System
Carries
Only
Failed
Idea
Also
Making
Scrap
Produce
Production
Use
Productive
Products
Connotation
Specification
Wasted
Awry