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The strange dilemma of the 'ethnic-fiction' writer is that you are supposed to carry a banner for your homeland, be a voice for it, and educate the rest of the world about it, but I think that's far too onerous a burden for any writer to bear.
Khaled Hosseini
You
Strange
World
Burden
Rest
Think
Too
Dilemma
Carry
About
Bear
Voice
Writer
Supposed
Educate
Any
Banner
Far
Your
Homeland
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
Khaled Hosseini
Culture
Burden
Kind
Entire
Represent
Novelist
Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.
Khloe Kardashian
People
Burden
Everyone
Someone
Likes
Issues
Who
What an awful burden we mothers and fathers, Jewish and not, have to bear - to hatch a thing we love more than ourselves into a world so fundamentally unworthy.
Kim Brooks
Love
World
Burden
Fathers
Ourselves
Hatch
More
Bear
Mothers
Unworthy
Than
Awful
Thing
Fundamentally
Jewish
Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems don't belong to my fans. I don't put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.
Koko Taylor
Me
Personality
Burden
Problems
Fans
Stage
Energy
Changes
Everything
Percent
Give
Put
Perform
Audience
Up
Behind
Them
Belong
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
Lalla Ward
Great
You
Burden
Guilt
Everybody
Bore
Properly
Had
Advantages
Feel
She
Felt
Understand
Been
Tragedy
Begin
Used
Appearing
Play
A donkey is a very useful beast of burden.
Lawrence Wright
Burden
Beast
Very
Donkey
Useful
You have an administration which understands America's international responsibilities and interests, but you have a population which is anxious, tired, and doesn't want to bear any burden and pay any price. And that's very difficult for whoever becomes president.
Lee Hsien Loong
Tired
You
Burden
Pay
Difficult
President
Responsibilities
Administration
Bear
Price
Becomes
Understands
Very
America
Anxious
Any
Want
Which
Interests
International
Whoever
Population
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
Leo Ornstein
Writing
Burden
Think
Bit
Some
Almost
Periods
Became
Been
With interest rates rising, gold doesn't pay an interest rate, but every other currency - it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold.
Lloyd Blankfein
Burden
Will
Important
Pay
Every
Other
Rate
Rates
Rising
More
Only
Price
Policy
Alternative
Insurance
Becomes
Currency
Gold
Expensive
Hold
Interest
Interest Rates
Less
The phrase 'no burden' largely captured what I wish people believed about themselves.
Lucy Dacus
People
Burden
Wish
Phrase
About
Themselves
Captured
Believed
Largely
'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.
Lucy Dacus
Burden
Ferocious
Necessarily
I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record.
Lucy Dacus
Burden
Think
Positivity
Record
Lot
When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.
Ludivine Sagnier
Burden
Problems
Thought
Pool
Swimming
Everyone
OK
Kind
Having
Like
Known
Am
Being
Swimming Pool
Bimbo
Coping
Image
Thinks
I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
Maggie Smith
Beautiful
Great
You
Burden
Old
Stars
Think
Once
Those
More
Take
Parts
Always
Hint
Been
Forever
Than
Done
Quite
Often
Fantastic
Then
Hard
Play
Playing
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
Magic Johnson
You
Burden
Secret
Out
More
Takes
Does
Than
Trying
Hold
Really
Hard
Keep
It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
Mandy Patinkin
Great
Better
Burden
Others
More
Feel
Within
Condition
Than
Human
Just
Artists
Human Condition
Sensitive
Suffer
In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.
Marcia Angell
Health
Burden
Care
Rest
Virtually
Economic
Highly
Economy
Terms
Massive
Industry
Health Care
Successful
Growing
Profitable
I came from a hard, working-class world which, since my mother's death, had been dominated by men. I hadn't been encouraged to talk about the burden of grief, and because I was severely underdeveloped when it came to sharing my emotions, I mustn't have been the most communicative husband.
Marco Pierre White
Death
Grief
Emotions
World
Mother
Burden
Men
Husband
About
Had
Sharing
Since
Most
Talk
Because
Came
Been
Encouraged
Dominated
Which
Communicative
Hard
Working-Class
Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.
Marcus Buckingham
Music
Entertainment
Burden
Year
Diamond
Every
Channels
Innovative
Our
Ways
Released
Ourselves
TV
Relieving
Thousands
Finding
Born
Varied
Tailor
Options
Movies
Us
Choices
Who
Companies
Rough
Albums
Amuse
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell
Freedom
You
Burden
Lost
Reputation
Never
Until
Realize
Really
Your
The burden of being a constant symbol, of having to live up to a symbol of advancement, of progress, of being perfect in some way and always representing the destiny of an entire people - that is supposed to be invincibility. That's enormous.
Margo Jefferson
People
Progress
Burden
Live
Enormous
Way
Destiny
Constant
Some
Entire
Having
Perfect
Advancement
Supposed
Always
Up
Representing
Being
Symbol
The French are overwhelmingly convinced that the euro is a burden. Returning to an adapted national currency will create millions of jobs and give us back our freedom.
Marine Le Pen
Freedom
Burden
Will
National
Back
Our
Jobs
Give
French
Returning
Currency
Us
Create
Convinced
Euro
Millions
Adapted
Songwriting isn't a choice. You're either called upon to bear the burden, or you're not. It's not all fun and games.
Mark Kozelek
You
Burden
Bear
Songwriting
Either
Choice
Games
Fun
If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
Mark Zuckerberg
You
Burden
Pressure
Think
Somewhat
Identity
Always
Real
Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
Marquis de Lafayette
Life
Liberty
Welfare
Burden
Country
Ambition
Believe
Danger
Recompense
Shall
Remains
Step
Advantage
Calculate
Hour
Return
Accept
Private
Arriving
Provided
Private Life
Done
May
Tranquillity
Refuse
Public
Now
Zero
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