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I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.
Elif Batuman
Teacher
Man
School
Would
Instead
Wrote
She
Became
Been
Covered
Hearing
Up
Person
Grew
Boarding
Boarding School
Grandmother
Who
Thesis
Livelihood
Her
As someone who attended six different public schools across America, went to Harvard, and subsequently became a tutor in Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side, I've witnessed firsthand the differences in learning styles between public school educations and private.
Eliot Schrefer
Learning
School
Differences
Public Schools
Side
Harvard
East
East Side
Someone
Attended
Between
Schools
Became
Styles
Witnessed
Firsthand
Private
Educations
Affluent
America
Subsequently
Upper
Six
Different
Manhattan
Public
Across
Tutor
Who
Public School
I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.
Elise Stefanik
Age
First
Congress
Run
Became
Representative
Decided
My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'
Eliza Coupe
Me
You
Internet
Own
Older
Changed
Back
Saw
Tells
Find
Brother
My Own
Could
Write
Had
Obsessed
Became
Because
Always
Go
Times
Person
Ace
Movie
Script
Then
Many
Older Brother
Watched
After I was cast, I decided to read 'Sharp Objects'. I ended up drowning it in sticky notes, highlighter and pen. It became my little diary I could refer to. I took little quotes out of the book and transferred them onto this scrapbook I kept about Amma.
Eliza Scanlen
Book
Took
Pen
Out
About
Objects
Cast
Could
Onto
Sharp
Drowning
Read
Became
Sticky
Refer
Diary
Up
Ended
After
Transferred
Decided
Quotes
Little
Them
Notes
Kept
As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Food
Important
Research
Corn
Worldwide
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Became
Continue
Years
Years Ago
Begun
American
Modern
Human
Central
Breeding
Agricultural
We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.
Elizabeth Diller
Work
Architecture
Arrogant
Collaborators
Kind
Voices
Budgets
Deadlines
Became
Doing
Were
Really
Interests
Hard
Special
Special Interests
Started
Humbled
When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Hunters
Sedentary
See
Indoors
Fellow
Occasional
Became
Wolves
Began
Lived
Livestock
Started
Raise
I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity!
Elizabeth Warren
Teacher
School
Opportunity
College
Daughter
Country
Way
States
Married
See
Cost
School Teacher
Became
Got
Truly
Texas
Semester
America
Senator
Graduated
Public
Janitor
Who
Public School
United
Professor
United States
As I started eating more natural foods and thinking about what I was putting into my body, I became more interested in what I was putting on it, too.
Ella Woodward
Natural
Thinking
Too
Eating
About
More
Foods
Putting
Became
Interested
Body
Started
I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.
Ellen DeGeneres
Love
Good
You
People
Big
Every
Kid
Kind
Something
Part
Observing
Since
Like
Comedian
Became
Audience
Got
Person
Big Part
Done
Just
Really
Filled
Why
Ever
Imagine
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Ellen Glasgow
History
You
Experience
Book
School
Matter
Dust
Vital
Lifeless
Sooner
Dead
Dry
Became
Piles
How
History Book
Than
Ended
While
Might
Lived
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
Ellen McLaughlin
Work
Courage
Own
Playwright
Drama
Others
Kind
My Own
Well
Became
Understand
Smug
Modern
Lack
Frustrated
Interested
Engaged
Found
Now
Deeply
Early
Enlightened
Amused
Plays
For me, being out within my life became far more important than being in any movie.
Ellen Page
Life
Me
My Life
Important
Out
More
Became
Within
Than
Any
Being
Movie
Far
Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there.
Elliott Abrams
Terrorism
Will
Gaza
Clear
Until
Became
Israel
Leave
Lebanon
Source
West
West Bank
South
Left
Bank
Against
Region
Should
Palestinians
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
Elmer Bernstein
Time
You
Man
Young
Dances
Ten
Ten Commandments
Write
Had
He
Written
Arm
Became
Hired
Were
Been
Commandments
Score
Very
Same
Same Time
Golden
Victor
Then
Ill
I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.
Elsa Peretti
Myself
Jewelry
Baby
Pencil
Exactly
Wear
Exactly What
Something
Knew
Ideas
Became
Because
How
Began
Wanted
Sketch
Designer
In the '80s, everything became too serious.
Elsa Peretti
Too
Everything
Became
Serious
I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.
Emeril Lagasse
Life
Time
Best
Food
Me
People
Cake
My Life
Guess
Everything
Guided
Intrigued
Totally
Following
Part
Feel
Instincts
Since
Became
Been
Louisiana
Same
Just
Same Time
Being
Happened
Moving
Icing
Here
I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become yourself, the more it disturbs other people.
Emil Ferris
Myself
You
Yourself
People
Become
Other
Monster
Monstrous
More
Never
Feel
Mostly
Became
Because
Quite
Wanted
I just came home and said, 'I'm a vegetarian.' My parents were very kind about it. And then, I became a vegan a year or two after that. Animal cruelty really got to me.
Emily Deschanel
Home
Me
Animal
Parents
Vegan
Cruelty
Year
Kind
About
Vegetarian
Became
Said
Got
Came
Were
Very
Just
After
Then
Really
Two
My mum bought discounted tickets for shows like 'Cats' and 'Les Miserables'; I became completely enamoured.
Emily Ratajkowski
Cats
Bought
Like
Tickets
Became
Enamoured
Les
Les Miserables
Shows
Mum
When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem
You
Mind
Black
Teenager
Kid
Rap
See
Crossed
Fact
Color
Never
Until
Became
Issue
Were
Friends
Trying
Little
Little Kid
Started
Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.
Emir Kusturica
Beautiful
Great
People
Problem
Country
Way
Kind
Tricky
Strongly
More
Superpower
Leading
Identify
Became
His
After
Movies
Yugoslavia
Novels
Awful
Needed
Basketball
It's more enjoyable when I'm disguised in some way; stepping into someone else's shoes is part of the reason why I became an actor.
Emun Elliott
Shoes
Else
Way
Some
Someone
More
Part
Stepping
Became
Disguised
Reason
Actor
Why
Enjoyable
I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.
Emun Elliott
Guitar
Listening
Stage
Seven
Nirvana
Since
Became
Because
Stopped
Wanted
Play
Played
Violin
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