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There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest.
Howard Jacobson
Work
Simple
Rest
Build
Down
Design
Hey
Logic
London
Rise
More
Small
Indistinguishable
Studios
Another
Always
Leave
Close
Offices
Shops
Suburb
Apartments
Production
Fashionable
Watch
Sympathetic
I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'
Hozier
You
Say
Suppose
Like
Around
Becoming
How
Cultural
Up
Friends
Close
Did
Anything
Place
Turn
Landscape
Many
Even
Grow
Grow Up
Growing
Growing Up
Aware
Why
Homophobic
Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed.
Hozier
Me
Social Media
Will
Self
Towards
Attitudes
Encourages
Familiar
Close
Behaviour
Anyone
Frustrations
Social
Breed
Certain
Aspects
Media
Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.
Hu Jintao
Relationship
Beginning
Thanks
President
Took
Meetings
President Obama
Sides
Telephone
Visits
Obama
Steady
Both
Both Sides
Through
Exchange
Contact
Maintained
Since
Close
Office
Efforts
Conversations
Century
Whole
Letters
Growth
Enjoyed
If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.
Hugh Jackman
Saying
Me
You
Memory
Fault
Wife
Says
Bad
About
Only
House
She
Terrible
Around
Lot
Close
Handy
Often
The Only Thing
Biggest
Inability
Ask
Thing
Things
I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
Hussein of Jordan
Work
Future
Man
Woman
Equality
Opportunities
Islam
Down
Approach
Intolerable
Muslim
Sexist
Totally
Shape
Open
Idea
Learn
Am
Up
Close
Same
Against
Should
Help
Ridiculous
I don't have that many friends, so I like to keep the ones that I really care for close to me.
Hyuna
Me
Care
Like
Friends
Close
Really
Many
Keep
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Me
Pleased
Given
Only
Poetry
Write
Feel
Am
Concrete
Still
Close
Cannot
Choose
Muse
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
Ian Mcewan
Intimate
Never
Spoke
Sort
Up
Friends
Close
Close Friends
Child
Preferred
Who
Groups
American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
Imelda May
Great
You
Brilliant
Will
Band
Tops
Tell
Open
Come
Audience
Am
Audiences
Doing
Very
Irish
Close
Get
American
American Audiences
Just
Spanish
Nowhere
Second
I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
Imogen Poots
Family
Me
Advise
Friends
Friends And Family
Close
Close Friends
Agent
Lucky
I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
Indiana Evans
Frustration
Somewhere
Big
Some
About
Implies
Because
Always
Still
Go
Been
Encouraging
Ambitious
Close
Role
Get
Roles
Getting
Ever
In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
Ingrid Betancourt
Women
Strong
Remember
Seen
Active
Negotiations
Reconciliation
Strong Women
Colombia
Factor
Remember When
Advocating
Were
Huge
Women Are
Close
Asking
Many
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Ira Glass
Time
People
Feeling
Think
Self
Self-Consciousness
Without
Close
Just
Harder
Harder Time
Consciousness
Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
Ira Sachs
Beautiful
Me
People
Sense
Intimacy
Member
Find
Pretty
Only
Obscene
Excites
Almost
Inviting
Audience
Audience Member
Very
Close
The Only Thing
Interested
Movies
Personally
Meaningful
Much
Capturing
Thing
We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
Iris Apfel
Work
You
People
Past
Whatever
White
White House
Possible
Restoration
Obliged
Major
Alongside
Institution
House
Understand
Historic
Close
Replica
Commission
Did
Often
Just
Want
Create
While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
Irwin M. Jacobs
Work
Valuable
Engineering
Every
Other
Out
Student
Term
Industry
Because
Go
Very
Close
While
Turned
Association
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov
Fall
Secretly
Those
Visibly
Bad
Bad Review
Writers
Observation
Bleed
Review
Close
Any
Who
Groups
Two
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
Isabel Allende
Death
Balance
Other
Way
Both
Eros
Very
Close
Each
Things
Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.
Isabel Yosito
Love
Heart
Relinquish
Dear
Command
Hand
Close
Your
When you hold a baby in your arms, you don't want to put it in a basket right away. You want to keep the baby close.
Isabelle Adjani
You
Baby
Put
Arms
Close
Want
Hold
Your
Keep
Away
Right
Right Away
Basket
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
J. C. Chandor
Writing
Luxury
Pretty
Close
Going
Just
Being
Movie
Which
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
J. C. Chandor
Family
Business
No-One
Up
Close
Did
Anything
Even
Grow
Grow Up
Film
Film Business
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Myself
Character
Me
Value
Later
Worrying
Character Development
Characters
Find
About
Week
Through
Perfection
Development
Feel
Most
Reader
Sort
Real
Close
Walking
Author
Manage
Gets
Store
Fiction
While
Create
Grocery
Grocery Store
Who
Fully
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
J. G. Ballard
Future
Alone
Believe
Other
Possible
Would
Find
All Writers
Vocabulary
Something
Writers
Ideas
Deal
Inevitably
Were
Existing
Very
Close
Scrap
Fiction
Form
Literature
Themselves
Producing
Whole
Present
Images
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
J. M. Coetzee
Suffering
Other
Our
Cruel
Close
Hearts
Order
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