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We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.
Erich Hoeber
You
People
Difficult
Incredibly
Way
Circumstances
Characters
Tortured
Some
Could
Through
Put
Idea
Know
Until
Attracted
Identify
Always
Tested
Been
Being
Really
Who
Suffered
Difficult Circumstances
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Evan Bayh
Patriotism
Financial
Country
Military
Penalized
Circumstances
Dire
Facing
No-One
Tours
Between
Longer
Due
Doing
Families
Than
Expected
Duties
Being
Should
Across
Choose
Right
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Fernando Flores
Circumstances
Blamed
Never
External
Yes, there are bad apples, but I do feel journalists do a good job, often in very difficult circumstances.
Fiona Barton
Good
Good Job
Job
Difficult
Circumstances
Bad
Feel
Journalists
Yes
Very
Often
Apples
Difficult Circumstances
There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
Floyd Abrams
Decision
First
Important
Circumstances
Some
Case
More
First Amendment
Particular
Make
Another
Up
Amendment
Which
Interest
Against
Really
You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
Foster Friess
You
Control
Circumstances
Response
Able
Might
Your
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Francisco Goya
Nature
Together
Single
Painting
Circumstances
Characteristics
Poetry
Like
Most
Occur
Being
Different
Which
Persons
Chooses
Many
Universal
Brings
Imaginary
You can't always change your circumstances, but you can change the way you experience them.
Gabrielle Bernstein
You
Change
Experience
Way
Circumstances
Always
Them
Your
Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.
Gareth Southgate
Good
Whatever
Way
Circumstances
Find
Atmosphere
Pitch
Teams
Playing
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
Georg Solti
Life
Music
Day
Home
Family
Me
Country
Young
Destiny
One Day
Circumstances
Hunt
Hunted
Object
Parted
Returning
Became
Still
Left
Native
Turned
Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.
George Eads
Time
You
Think
Bit
Draw
Circumstances
Pretty
Shake
Cast
Compromising
Emotion
Put
Like
Real
Real Emotion
Up
Close
Any
Little
Little Bit
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
George W. S. Trow
Class
Nation
Difficult
Circumstances
Backward
Eclectic
Troubling
Advanced
Begins
Often
Ends
Process
Which
Choice
Many
Thing
Belong
Coherence
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.
Gerald Edelman
History
Universe
Circumstances
Likely
Brain
Very
The History Of
Different
Your
Exposed
Unique
Each
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.
Geraldine Brooks
Light
Power
First
Before
Circumstances
About
Write
Attempting
Almost
Longhand
Learned
Because
Years
Reporter
Any
Any Circumstances
Candle
African
Where
Newspaper
Newspaper Reporter
Worked
Novel
Villages
It is not good thinking - either at the corporate level or at the personal level - to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.
Gerard Arpey
Good
You
Walk
Believe
Thinking
Corporate
Circumstances
Simply
Personal
Personal Level
Either
Your
Away
Level
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
Gijs de Vries
War
Ought
Circumstances
Civilians
Indiscriminate
Attacks
Illegal
Peacetime
Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.
Gillian Cross
Better
Live
Think
Other
Other Countries
Backgrounds
Those
Circumstances
Would
Fed
Countries
Come
Like
Healthier
Than
Refugees
Different
Different Backgrounds
Many
I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Mother
Father
White
Birth
Complete
Circumstances
Crisis
Out
Find
Finding
Pretty
Give
Adopted
Given
Having
Could
Identity
How
Up
Child
Trying
Then
Search
Growing
Growing Up
Why
Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.
Gioconda Belli
Alone
Change
Light
Impossible
Achieve
Power
Reading
Our
Books
Our Lives
Circumstances
Seeking
Crucial
Realize
Us
Moments
Even
Helps
Lives
This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.
Gisele Bundchen
Life
Me
World
Better
Will
My Life
Too
Our
Worse
Circumstances
Our World
Terrible
Because
Making
Affect
End
Survive
Same
Same Things
In The End
To Survive
Your
Things
Need
Fiscal policy will need to manage trade-offs between supporting demand, protecting social spending, and ensuring that public debt remains on a sustainable path, with the optimal mix depending on country-specific circumstances.
Gita Gopinath
Path
Will
Spending
Ensuring
Circumstances
Remains
Between
Demand
Supporting
Protecting
Policy
Fiscal
Mix
Debt
Optimal
Manage
Depending
Sustainable
Public
Social
Need
The United Nations, and the way we approach collective security, must be adapted to changing circumstances. The United Nations is our prime instrument for effective multilateral solutions and a rule-based international order.
Goran Persson
Collective
United Nations
Changing
Approach
Our
Way
Circumstances
Security
Must
Solutions
Prime
Instrument
Effective
Nations
Order
International
Multilateral
United
Adapted
I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
Gregory Harrison
Love
Saying
Strength
Own
Think
Circumstances
Voice
Most
Sing
Singer
Am
Any
Any Circumstances
Really
Certainly
Actor
Sufficient
Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.
H. R. McMaster
Life
Death
War
Competition
National
Other
Circumstances
Security
Life And Death
Vital
Some
Objective
Only
Winning
Counterproductive
Also
Involving
Because
Than
National Security
Unethical
Irresponsible
Establishing
Which
Stake
Interests
Wasteful
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
Ha-Joon Chang
Political
Free
Intervention
Beneficial
Market
Circumstances
Minimum
Minimum Wage
See
More
Economic
Free Market
Mere
Economists
Makes
Frequently
Wage
Wages
However
Legislation
Decent
Which
Workers
Certain
Productive
Show
Theories
I was elected prime minister in 2014 under incredibly difficult circumstances: A third of the country was overrun by terrorists, the economy was struggling, people were divided by sectarianism, and relations with the wider world were strained.
Haider al-Abadi
People
World
Country
Difficult
Incredibly
Relations
Sectarianism
Circumstances
Minister
Struggling
Divided
Prime
Prime Minister
Economy
Terrorists
Were
Overrun
Elected
Strained
Difficult Circumstances
Wider
Third
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