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For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.
Alexandra Fuller
Work
Hard Work
Be True
Before
Believe
Everything
Memoir
Brutal
True
Come
Self-Examination
Author
Succeed
Really
Page
Hard
I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The Emirates. The night before, I remember I put my music on my iPod. I was lying in bed, and I listened to the Champions League music. That was my Champions League debut, my first time. It was beautiful.
Alexandre Pato
Beautiful
Music
Time
Remember
First
Before
Lying
Put
League
First Time
Bed
iPod
Arsenal
Debut
Listened
Against
Milan
Champions
Champions League
Night
I was never a gym person before 'Game Of Thrones.' The idea of it was a bore to me - and it kind of still is - but I had a problem with my knee, so I can't play sport as much as I'd like to.
Alfie Allen
Me
Game
Problem
Before
Kind
Bore
Gym
Never
Had
Knee
Idea
Like
Sport
Still
Person
Much
Game Of Thrones
Play
I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.
Alfonso Cuaron
Beautiful
You
Learning
Marriage
Amazing
Thought
Before
Way
About
Between
Terms
Learned
Territory
Narrative
Shoot
Unexplored
Movie
Form
Now
When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.
Alfred Hershey
Work
Before
Would
Dreamed
Physical
Something
Structure
Never
Around
Chemist
Doing
Began
Very
Being
Which
Much
Molecules
Enjoyed
Started
Playing
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
Somebody
Before
Everything
Has-Been
Importance
Said
Been
Discover
Did
Who
I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
Alice Hoffman
Book
Sometimes
Before
Later
More
Feel
Like
Wrote
Real
Go
Been
Than
Did
Imagined
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
Alice Hoffman
Truth
People
Before
Sister
Think
Thinking
Finding
About
Castle
Tale
Know
She
Fairy
Fairy Tale
How
Wives
Came
Going
Often
Room
Confronted
Really
Bodies
Youngest
Original
Her
Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.
Alice McDermott
You
Before
Whatever
Way
Adjective
Some
Russian
Writer
Put
Limiting
Feminist
Any
Going
Whether
Noun
Jewish
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
Alice Walker
Life
Spiritual
Me
Before
Hidden
Though
Eye
See
More
Than
Illuminated
Level
I start each book when it's ready and never before.
Alice Walker
Book
Before
Never
Ready
Each
Start
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
Alice Walker
Writing
Mother
Before
Says
Dirt
Wrote
Crawling
Twig
I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.
Alicia Keys
Beautiful
Myself
Overcome
Made
Girl
Edge
Before
Young
Other
City
Dressed
Had
Knew
Obstacles
Like
Still
Were
Been
Up
Done
Just
Want
Wanted
Grew
Which
Hard
Who
Many
My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.
Alicia Witt
Before
Goal
Roles
Just
Different
Keep
Played
Playing
I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.
Alison Goldfrapp
Time
Relationship
Animals
Before
Think
Between
Always
Been
Cave
Them
Aspects
Fascinated
Many
Appear
Paintings
Humans
I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.
Alison Lohman
Sometimes
Nervous
Before
Once
Though
Kind
Fine
Minutes
About
Onstage
Performance
Still
Go
Get
Hits
Want
Really
Even
Each
Really, I am entirely material driven. If a project appeals to me, I will try to find the right writer and director. And that may be someone I've worked with before, or it may not. It may be a woman, or it may not.
Alison Owen
Me
Director
Woman
Try
Will
Before
Project
Find
Someone
Entirely
Writer
Driven
Material
Am
May
Worked
Really
Appeals
Right
If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you serve them. It adds a nice flavor. We grill a lot, so I'll use a little on my corn or my shrimp.
Alison Sweeney
You
Before
Nice
Corn
Adds
Something
Lightly
Spray
Lot
Going
Oil
Grill
Little
Flavor
Them
Use
Shrimp
Serve
Olive
Olive Oil
Pan
I've seen a couple of singer switches happen right before my eyes, one being Roy Khan to Tommy Karevik in Kamelot, and the other was Anette Olzon to Floor Jansen in Nightwish. Those happened with me present, and I saw how well the fans took to these singers because they were presented in the proper way.
Alissa White-Gluz
Me
Eyes
Fans
Seen
Before
Other
Took
Khan
Saw
Way
Those
Proper
Couple
Singer
Singers
Well
Because
How
Were
Being
Happen
Happened
Floor
Tommy
Right
Present
Roy
Presented
When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body deal with lactic acid. But you don't need to make it too complicated. Yorkshire is perfect because the hills work as intervals - you ride up them hard and then recover before the next one. Or you can just sprint to the next tree or lamppost.
Alistair Brownlee
Work
You
Heart
Ride
Complicated
Rest
Before
Tree
Too
Intervals
Bit
Spike
Rate
Perfect
Recover
Hills
Make
Because
Deal
Causes
Sprint
Up
Heart Rate
Yorkshire
Just
Acid
Them
Then
Next
Body
Your
Your Body
Hard
Helps
Fast
Need
I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.
Allan Gurganus
Me
Walls
Old
Brilliant
Met
Before
Took
Summer
Ancient
Visited
Collector
Cases
New
Quaint
House
She
Calling
Another
Occupied
Passionate
Were
His
Aunt
Lined
Friend
Shoe
Full
England
Kent
'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
Allan Gurganus
Heart
Culture
Book
World
Half
Year
Before
Else
Book Tour
Our
Hid
Collapsed
Scared
Week
Tour
Towers
Like
Unto
Practical
Felt
Trade
Prayed
Reviewing
Going
Stopped
Where
Anyway
Paul
Apostle
Believers
Published
World Trade
My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Allan Gurganus
Family
Mother
Father
Value
Degree
Important
Master
Before
Nothing
Everything
Extremely
Those
Kids
Having
Price
Had
Like
Know
Schoolteacher
She
Were
Been
Families
Where
Moneymaking
Started
I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I definitely listen to music with a good beat - that's when you've got the adrenalin pumping. And the time before you go into a race weekend, you have a lot of emotion and adrenalin, and a lot of focus.
Allan McNish
Music
Time
Good
You
People
Emotions
Car
Focus
Before
Think
Pumping
Definitely
About
Adrenalin
Weekend
Beat
Emotion
Got
Am
Go
Affect
Lot
Get
Listen
Race
Race Car
Really
This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.
Allen Iverson
You
Before
Kid
Dream
About
League
Getting
Even
Thing
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Allen Tate
Finished
Before
Gaze
Evidence
Critic
Poem
Only
Real
His
Any
May
Bring
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