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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan
People
Few
Very
Than
Ants
Closer
Few People
Endure
Leisure
Much
Butterflies
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.
Gerard Butler
Myself
Mask
Singing
Those
Possible
Wearing
Horror
Could
Through
Had
Performing
Prosthetic
Audience
Stylized
Get
Closer
Human
Movement
While
Used
Expressing
Phantom
Keeping
Things
I get a lot of comments from people that I'm just an ordinary bloke. They immediately feel they have a closer relationship with you; they relate to you.
Gerry Harvey
Relationship
You
People
Relate
Immediately
Feel
Bloke
Lot
Comments
Get
Closer
Just
Ordinary
Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.
Gerry Mulligan
Bass
Piano
Most
Always
Than
Closer
Worked
Means
Players
You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
Gijs de Vries
You
Heart
Intelligence
National
Security
Than
Get
National Security
National Sovereignty
Closer
Sovereignty
Services
I feel like that's the nature of being a young guy - competition brings people closer. That's how I bond with people.
Glen Powell
Nature
People
Competition
Young
Guy
Feel
Like
How
Closer
Being
Young Guy
Bond
Brings
Sometimes when things are happening outside the team, when forces are at work to try to break the team apart or cause issues, it can actually have a different effect - it can bring the boys closer together. They become more of a unit and they start to protect each other.
Glenn McGrath
Work
Together
Sometimes
Cause
Try
Become
Other
More
Outside
Protect
Forces
Boy
Issues
Effect
Closer
Different
Break
Happening
Apart
Team
Each
Unit
Actually
Things
Start
Bring
If you were inactive due to an injury or a surgery, then common sense rules the day when inching closer to the area that was hurt. That is very different from inactivity due to being ill. After illness, be aware of how taxing your workout is cardiovascularly and err on the side of less.
Gunnar Peterson
Day
You
Hurt
Sense
Side
Rules
Area
How
Surgery
Due
Were
Err
Very
Closer
Common
Being
Different
After
Common Sense
Inactivity
Taxing
Then
Your
Less
Ill
Workout
Illness
Aware
Injury
I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.
Hamza Yusuf
Live
Think
Way
Muslim
Muslims
Would
Rather
Allowed
Countries
Most
Because
West
Than
Closer
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.
Harlan Ellison
Best
Science
Whatever
Think
Writer
Science Fiction
Been
Ultimately
Labels
Closer
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Them
Really
Derogatory
Ever
Speculative
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
Henry Lawson
Eyes
Independence
Become
Our
Respected
Extremes
Carry
Shall
Never
Individuality
Study
Merit
Until
Understood
Accorded
Than
Hitherto
Closer
Us
English
Asserting
Sufficient
Consequence
To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.
Henry Rollins
Music
You
Gift
Wish
Become
Cold
Someone
Give
Like
Bummer
Closer
Burn
Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.
Holly Hunter
People
Extraordinary
Examination
Look
Very
Closer
Often
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Even
The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
Howard Coble
Freedom
Democracy
Will
Approaches
More
Impediment
Terrorists
Erect
Iraq
Closer
Barriers
No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.
Huey Newton
You
Prison
Whatever
Say
System
Out
More
Absolute
No-One
Dropped
Feel
Longer
Am
Closer
Transform
Might
Reason
Even
Thing
Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law.
Hugh Grant
Law
Power
Become
Live
Incredible
Our
Kind
Ministers
Mafia
Some
Above
Prime
Prime Ministers
Governments
Families
Closer
Newspapers
Choose
Britain
Wield
Collaboration between different parts of the world will bring us closer. From a business point of view, it opens up new markets as well.
Huma Qureshi
Business
World
Will
Collaboration
Markets
Point
Point Of View
Between
New
Opens
Well
Parts
Up
Closer
Different
Us
Different Parts
View
Bring
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
Ian Mckellen
Life
Death
Saying
Time
Good
You
Better
Too Much
Somebody
Believe
Think
Too
Good Life
No Point
Point
Road
Make
Sure
Always
Doing
Were
End
Closer
Died
Want
Much
Your
Waste
Things
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
Ian Williams
Guitar
Think
String
Distortion
More
Results
Making
Sound
Source
Lot
Began
Than
Closer
Which
Twang
Now
Play
Played
Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
Ira Glass
Saying
Great
You
People
Speak
Mimic
Other
Way
More
Powerful
Talent
Like
Stern
Real
Howard Stern
His
Closer
Conversations
Might
Show
Speaking
Radio
Each
Why
Actually
Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.
Isabella Bird
Other
Unlike
About
More
Write
Prose
Closer
Places
Acquaintance
Plain
Hard
Many
Fascinating
Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.
Iwan Rheon
You
Man
Theatre
Yourself
Own
Live
One-Man
Scary
Songs
Written
Like
Although
Because
Revealing
Up
Closer
Quite
Your
Show
Playing
I feel more comfortable where I play for Colombia because I like to be closer to the goal; that works better for me. I can score and pass from there. But as a player, I have to be prepared to play in any position.
James Rodriguez
Me
Better
Be Prepared
Colombia
More
Feel
Like
Comfortable
Because
Pass
Goal
Score
Closer
Any
Where
Works
Prepared
Play
Player
Position
Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.
James Spader
Work
You
People
Sometimes
Important
Other
More
Most
Most Important Thing
Enables
Am
Important Thing
Closer
The Most Important
Them
Thing
Things
There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.
Jamie Johnson
You
Better
Circles
Rule
Define
Status
Individual
Unspoken
Most
Always
His
Proximity
Person
Affluent
Maxim
Closer
Goes
Influential
Room
Measuring
Her
Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.
Janet Evanovich
Writing
Feels
Than
Closer
Screen
Hard
Graphic
Novel
Play
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