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I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.
James Bay
Attention Span
Guitar
Brilliant
Desperate
Three
Spent
Some
About
Proper
Computer
Had
Bought
Attention
New
Hours
Because
Got
Span
Lessons
Eventually
My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.
James Bay
Brilliant
Difficult
Songwriting
Well
Process
Really
Painful
Fun
Works
Load
People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.
James Caan
Time
People
Brilliant
First
Picture
Directors
Make
Terrified
Because
Around
First Time
Wonder
Listen
Experts
Little
Them
Then
Suck
Why
Second
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
James Ellroy
Life
Great
Man
Woman
Happy
Marriage
People
Human Being
Brilliant
Rich
Great Career
Out
Dream
Fabulous
About
Absolutely
Investigation
Know
Most
Well-Adjusted
Got
Am
Very
Human
Being
Famous
Happy Man
Started
Career
City are a great club, and I had five great years there and enjoyed every minute. The fans were brilliant with me the whole time there, and that made the decision difficult.
James Milner
Time
Great
Me
Decision
Fans
Brilliant
Made
Club
Difficult
Every
City
Minute
Had
Were
Years
Five
Whole
Enjoyed
My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.
Jamie Oliver
Memories
Together
Cooking
Brilliant
First
Feeling
Summers
Outdoor
Eating
He
Put
Erratic
Barbecue
Swearing
Full
Dad
Eventually
Sausages
British
'Zoolander.' Yeah, I mean, I love Ben Stiller; he's just a brilliant guy. And I love Will Ferrell in it, too. His character, to me, is just insane, and he made such huge choices, and he's such a weirdo!
Jane Lynch
Love
Character
Me
Brilliant
Will
Made
Too
Will Ferrell
Insane
Guy
He
Weirdo
Yeah
His
Huge
Just
Mean
Choices
Ben
I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!
Jared Harris
Love
Death
Good
Brilliant
Though
Scene
Come
Lot
Done
Quite
Quite A Lot
Dying
Movies
Shows
I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.
Jason Calacanis
People
Brilliant
Google
Think
Done
Who
Company
Filled
Things
Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.
Jason Statham
Me
You
Comedy
Brilliant
Action
Particularly
Genre
Get
Really
Right
With 'The Expendables,' you have such a brilliant mess of the greatest action stars of all time, so you're in for the ride with those people.
Jason Statham
Time
You
People
Ride
Brilliant
Action
Stars
Those
All-Time
Mess
Greatest
Scorsese will only work with brilliant material. And everyone wants to work with him.
Jason Statham
Work
Brilliant
Will
Everyone
Only
Him
Material
Scorsese
Wants
I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck.
Jaye Davidson
Brilliant
Big
Broad
Feet
Also
Got
Very
Body
Shoulders
Neck
Muscular
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
Jayson Blair
Me
Brilliant
Catch
Come
How
Hire
When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'
Jeff Bewkes
Finance
Myself
Brilliant
Engineering
Add
Valley
Out
High
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Classmates
Advanced
Nobody
Looked
Industry
Said
Came
Go
Were
Wall
Wall Street
Going
Where
Who
Jeff
Stanford
Street
Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Love
History
Entertainment
Business
People
Remember
Impossible
Brilliant
Somewhere
First
Everyone
Later
Entertainment Business
Exactly
Exactly What
Someone
Something
Fired
Studio
Between
Days
Most
Said
Got
Doing
Years
Improbable
Afraid
The History Of
Eight
Successful
Disney
Successful People
Who
Started
Two
What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?
Jennifer Ehle
Garden
Brilliant
Will
Back
See
Point
No-One
Doing
Ever
When I was working on 'Night Falls Over Kortedala,' I was listening a lot to 'Graceland,' the Paul Simon record. I really got into the lyrics on that album. The opening line is so brilliant, the way he sets the scene.
Jens Lekman
Listening
Brilliant
Sets
Lyrics
Way
Record
Scene
Simon
He
Over
Opening
Got
Line
Falls
Lot
Paul
Paul Simon
Really
Working
Album
Night
I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.
Jeremy Bulloch
Brilliant
Dancer
Singer
If I ever score against Spurs, I won't celebrate. Even if it's the best goal in the world, I'll keep it subdued. It's a respect thing. The fans were brilliant towards me; I'll be playing against my friends and I can't forget that.
Jermain Defoe
Best
Me
Respect
Celebrate
World
Fans
Brilliant
Towards
Were
Subdued
Goal
Score
Spurs
Friends
Forget
Against
Even
Keep
Ever
Thing
Playing
You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a brilliant entertainer, she's a brilliant lady, and she's a wonderful human being, and the community doesn't like it.
Jerry Lewis
You
Wonderful
Human Being
Brilliant
Community
Difficult
Entertainer
Like
Know
She
Because
Human
Being
Lady
Want
Barbra Streisand
Why
Streisand
When you're surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that's got to be good for you.
Jessie Buckley
Good
You
Challenge
Brilliant
Thought
Beyond
Got
Go
Were
Surrounded
Capable
Teachers
Who
Actor
I have met Jackie Chan about 6 times up 'til now... and even though many people think we are natural enemies, I personally think he is a cool bloke and would honestly love to work with him in a film one time - that would a well brilliant movie!
Jet Li
Work
Love
Time
Natural
People
Enemies
Brilliant
Met
Think
Honestly
Though
Would
One Time
About
He
Well
Him
Bloke
Up
Times
Jackie
Jackie Chan
Movie
Personally
Cool
Many
Even
Film
Now
Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Life
Myself
Great
Me
Library
Guidance
Problems
Perspective
Brilliant
My Life
Reading
Petty
Changed
Late
Out
Shakespeare
Mornings
Put
Opened
Got
Bed
Questions
Up
Closely
Them
Professor
Night
Kept
Plays
Dating apps are brilliant for expanding your actual social network, which leads you to meet other people.
Joanna Coles
You
People
Brilliant
Other
Meet
Apps
Network
Dating
Leads
Expanding
Which
Social
Your
Actual
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
Joanne Harris
Work
Satire
Old
Brilliant
Criticism
Enter
Dared
Criticise
Critics
Only
Arena
Days
Wit
Equal
Were
Erudition
Very
Inferior
Person
Often
Literary
Literary Criticism
Literature
Old Days
Required
Measures
Ridicule
Butt
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