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I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Gregory Peck
Entertain
Lecture
Any
Just
Want
Grind
Axes
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
Roman Jakobson
Every
Located
Sign
Linguistic
Succession
Axes
Axis
Two
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
Michael Nesmith
Interviews
Press
Follow-Up
Something
Like
Doing
Any
Grind
Now
Publicity
Right
Axes
We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.
Teresa Medeiros
Life
Culture
Light
Fall
Lost
Own
Live
Programming
Beneath
Our
Latest
Guiding
Abandoned
Casualty
Just
Soaps
Axes
Beloved
I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.
Karan Mahajan
Thought
Distance
Once
Slight
Ways
Characters
Inside
Physical
See
Mental
Tend
Retain
Outside
Did
Unexpected
Modern
Just
Psychological
Which
Then
Means
Act
Use
Novel
Technique
Axes
Two
I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.
James Cosmo
Teeth
Battles
Out
Horses
Hazard
Knocked
Come
Well
Occupational
Fists
Off
Getting
Your
Using
Fought
Swords
Axes
Medieval