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I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.
Suzanne Collins
Big
Background
TV
Pretty
Writers
Over
Hours
Years
Rooms
Many
I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.
Sylvia Kristel
Love
Me
Fruit
Parents
Nothing
Background
Uncertain
Divided
Division
Divorce
Divorced
Longer
Sadder
Supposed
Within
Am
Years
Exist
Years Ago
Than
Child
Happened
Forty
Forty Years
Nearly
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
T. D. Jakes
Faith
Style
Preaching
Think
Background
Pentecostal
About
Both
Ideals
Ideas
Baptist
Many
Based
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.'
Takashi Murakami
Art
Culture
People
World
Try
Country
Important
Own
Background
My Own
Combine
Term
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Felt
How
Making
Came
Up
Very
Art World
Debut
Artist
I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.
Tammy Duckworth
Wait
Nation
Before
Pay
Enormous
Criminal
Our
Background
Those
Secure
Immigrants
Unpaid
Citizens
Borders
Fine
Check
Know
Also
Make
Sure
Pass
Becoming
Firsthand
Came
Contributions
Any
Turn
Taxes
Who
Here
Need
Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.
Ted Cruz
Myself
Heritage
Background
Sure
Listed
I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.
Teddy Thompson
Family
Parents
Singing
Background
Idea
Like
Although
Cousins
Came
Were
Family Background
Anything
Really
Your
Playing
I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.
Temple Grandin
Noise
Remember
Old
Young
Background
Carpet
Out
Spinning
Some
About
Touched
Picking
Like
Hours
Talk
Until
Am
Years
Up
Improved
Behaviors
Autistic
Screamed
Want
Grew
Much
Less
Plates
Compared
Now
Shut
Watching
Steve hadn't been to acting school. He had no preconceived notions. His background was exactly what you see on television; he's done that all his life. We thought we'd do one show. What happened was, it did really well, so we did a part two. And from then on, we found that Steve's natural behavior in the wild happens to be fascinating!
Terri Irwin
Life
You
Natural
School
Behavior
Thought
Wild
Background
Television
Exactly
Exactly What
See
Had
He
Part
Steve
Well
Been
His
Did
Done
Preconceived
Happened
Happens
Then
Really
Acting
Notions
Show
Acting School
Fascinating
Found
Two
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.
Tess Gerritsen
Best
Emotions
Behavior
Think
Medicine
Background
Backgrounds
Range
Find
See
Writer
Because
Always
Human
Human Behavior
Stories
Human Emotions
Much
Cops
One thing about WOW that I love is that we're taking women from all different parts of life. We have girls from jiu jitsu and an MMA background. We have mothers. We have students. We have people from everyday life who found this love for professional wrestling.
Tessa Blanchard
Life
Love
Women
Love Is
People
Everyday Life
Girl
Everyday
Background
One Thing
Wow
About
Wrestling
Students
Taking
Parts
Mothers
Different
Different Parts
Who
Professional
Found
Thing
When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.
Theophilus London
Work
You
People
Research
Background
Definitely
Some
Someone
Know
How
Were
Want
Choose
Raised
Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.
Thomas McGuane
Game
Old
Mind
Long
Meditation
Spell
Background
Neighbor
Response
Some
Only
Insomnia
Remained
Lifting
Clear
Like
Piece
Until
Learned
Principles
Empty
Jack
Each
It is easier for a star kid to get noticed than for a person coming from a non-film background. That being said, I didn't get my first movie because I was Jackie Shroff's son.
Tiger Shroff
Son
First
Background
Kid
Easier
Because
Said
Coming
Than
Person
Get
Jackie
Being
Movie
Noticed
Star
My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.
Tim Allen
Best
Car
Wife
Feelings
Understanding
Background
Gut
Drives
She
Years
Difference
Which
Loves
Them
Uses
Her
Basically
I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.
Tim Harford
Economics
Aiming
Books
Background
Am
Anybody
If we are going to be serious about enforcing the law, we have to have a background record check system to make sure that people don't get weapons who shouldn't.
Tim Kaine
People
Law
Background
System
Weapons
Record
About
Check
Make
Sure
Get
Going
Enforcing
Who
Serious
The policy issue is this: the TSA should focus less on big data commercial background checks of passengers, which have proven unpopular and unreliable, and more time on securing flights by screening passengers for weapons and explosives.
Tom Bossert
Time
Focus
Big
Background
Unpopular
Weapons
Data
More
Unreliable
Checks
Policy
Passengers
Proven
Issue
Commercial
Screening
Which
Should
Explosives
Less
Flights
If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.
Tom Hooper
You
Focus
Long
Films
Background
Out
Classic
Tend
Know
Look
Shoot
Quite
Just
Hollywood
Lenses
Mush
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
Tom Jones
Father
Background
Miner
Come
Coal
Working-Class
My family wasn't involved in the college. They were more of just your 'white trash' kind of family. And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were passing through.
Tom Petty
Family
Made
College
White
Else
Background
Kind
Something
Something Else
More
Through
Over
Involved
Always
Passing
Were
Years
Lot
Friends
Just
Different
Your
Aspired
Trash
The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no pesky nuances and almost no background about the series' continuing characters - just the hard nuts and bolts of pure storytelling.
Tom Shales
Me
Law
Pure
Background
Nuts
Characters
About
Seemed
Almost
Always
Continuing
Very
Just
Order
Storytelling
Hard
Original
Exposition
Series
Filler
Bolts
Nuances
Basic
The 'Tough Man' contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn't know how to fight.
Tommy Morrison
Me
Man
Fight
Made
Tough
Edge
Older
Background
Easier
Entered
Guys
Given
Having
Uncles
Pounds
Weighed
Had
ID
Know
Because
Boxing
Got
Fake
How
Contests
Were
Lot
Dad
Older Guys
Card
Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It's one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!
Torrey DeVitto
Love
Day
Me
Fool
Culture
People
Speak
Goals
Will
Somewhere
Before
Think
Assume
Type
Background
Latin
One Day
Sexy
Able
Some
Name
Learn
Learns
Always
Anyone
Spanish
Then
Really
Last
I do have musical background; I sing.
Trai Byers
Musical
Background
Sing
Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
Travis Tritt
Big
Background
Part
Big Part
Bluegrass
Really
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