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I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.
Sara Blakely
Control
White
Enough
Pants
Pantyhose
Top
Out
Wear
One-Night
Threw
Perfect
Could
Shape
Shaping
Feet
Make
Material
Them
Cut
Realized
Thin
Night
Toning
The definition of comedy is 'unsafe space' - you can't control what people laugh at.
Sara Pascoe
You
People
Comedy
Space
Control
Definition
Laugh
Unsafe
But with 'Newsrevue' I started doing some characters, and I just loved how you were in control. You could write something that day and go and do it that night, rather than waiting for a job that involves other people. So I did character stand-up, and then proper stand-up, and I loved it; I got addicted.
Sara Pascoe
Day
Character
You
Waiting
People
Job
Control
Other
Addicted
Characters
Some
Proper
Something
Rather
Could
Write
Involves
Got
How
Doing
Go
Were
Than
Did
Just
Loved
Then
Started
Night
You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.
Sara Rue
Fitness
You
Control
Percent
Put
Looks
How
Really
Body
Your
Your Body
Level
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.
Sara Sheridan
Financial
Digital
Job
Value
Revolution
Control
White
Difficult
Corporate
Extremely
Enter
Critics
Misconceptions
Writer
Put
Make
Around
Male
Middle-Aged
Little
Profession
Away
Publishers
A cashless society promises a world of limitation, control, and surveillance - all of which the poorest Americans already have in abundance, of course. For the most vulnerable, the cashless society offers nothing substantively new; it only extends the reach of the existing paternal bureaucratic state.
Sarah Jeong
World
Promises
Control
Nothing
Society
State
Only
Abundance
New
Reach
Most
Course
Vulnerable
Limitation
Existing
Surveillance
Offers
American
Paternal
Bureaucratic
Which
Poorest
Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of being watched.
Sarah Jeong
Fear
Police
Long
Control
Way
Out
Namely
Been
Surveillance
Getting
Being
Them
Themselves
Watched
So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Joy
Contentment
Control
Our
Strive
Ourselves
More
Area
Perfection
Importantly
Provides
Children
Which
Necessarily
Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Love
Best
Tired
World
Seriously
Control
Birth
Birth Control
Okay
All My Friends
Kids
Borrow
Something
Absolutely
Like
Another
Years
Friends
Maybe
Just
Afterwards
Meantime
Eventually
Two
It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.
Sarah Shahi
Work
You
Control
Stage
Nice
Everything
Location
Feel
Look
Because
Get
Fun
Elements
In the digital world, content has the tendency to lose value, especially on smart devices. We finally found solutions to the problem. We will not merely port games developed for our dedicated systems to smart devices just as they are - we will develop brand new software which perfectly matches the play style and control mechanisms of smart devices.
Satoru Iwata
Problem
World
Smart
Digital
Will
Value
Style
Lose
Control
Software
Digital World
Our
Finally
Systems
Solutions
Tendency
Develop
Developed
Merely
Perfectly
New
Devices
Content
Matches
Brand
Brand New
Just
Which
Dedicated
Games
Mechanisms
Found
Port
Play
Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.
Saul Alinsky
Travel
Events
Political
Degree
Shifting
Own
Control
Action
Trapped
Enough
Circumstances
Must
Tactics
Road
Over
Reaction
Forced
Short
Being
Process
Sensitive
Avoid
Choosing
Radicals
Resilient
Flow
Adaptable
And I get so nervous now when it's not my show, like I'm not the headliner, because I know that those fans are there for another artist. Many people might not know an upcoming artist, but I've grown to like those shows because if I can control a crowd that doesn't know me, I'm doing my job as an entertainer. I have to rise to the occasion.
Saweetie
Me
People
Fans
Job
Nervous
Control
Those
Entertainer
Rise
Crowd
Like
Know
Occasion
Another
Because
Doing
Get
Artist
Might
Show
Many
Shows
Grown
Now
I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.
Saxby Chambliss
Government
People
Money
Control
Think
Ought
Some
Rather
Invest
Over
How
Than
Going
Just
Them
People ought to have more control over their lives.
Saxby Chambliss
People
Control
Ought
More
Over
Lives
As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.
Scott Cohen
You
Control
Creation
Think
Starts
Something
Never
Development
Goal
Close
Get
Want
Create
Really
Product
Actor
To me, the horror genre is the genre of non-denial. It's about admitting that there is evil in the world and recognizing that there is evil within us and that we're not in control and that the things that we are afraid of must be confronted in order for us to relinquish that fear.
Scott Derrickson
Me
World
Fear
Evil
Admitting
Control
Recognizing
Must
About
Relinquish
Horror
Genre
Within
Afraid
Order
Confronted
Us
Things
As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
Scott Ellis
Work
You
Control
Over
Whom
Actor
Our battles against the EPA and other rogue federal agencies aren't about a desire for dirtier air or zero regulation. They are about our right as a state to control our own destiny and resist attempts by the administration to ramrod a wish list of regulations through agency heads instead of garnering approval from Congress.
Scott Pruitt
Wish
Own
Control
Congress
Other
State
Our
Air
Approval
Destiny
Battles
Administration
About
Through
Federal
Attempts
Instead
Wish List
Heads
Rogue
List
Against
EPA
Agencies
Agency
Regulation
Regulations
Zero
Right
Resist
Desire
To know is to control.
Scott Reed
Control
Know
You're competing against other guys because ultimately there's only one starter, and all of us want to be that guy at some point. That's the way I approach it. Control what I can control and just be the best I can be each day.
Scott Tolzien
Best
Day
You
Control
Just Be
Other
Approach
Way
Some
Guy
Guys
Only
Point
Because
Ultimately
Just
Want
Against
Us
Each
Each Day
Competing
Starter
I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.
Scott Walker
Success
Government
You
People
Benefits
Own
Control
Believe
Think
Kick
Destiny
Sector
Jobs
Able
More
Like
Most
Employers
Because
How
Private
Been
Off
Private Sector
Unemployment
Fewer
Them
Created
Many
Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.
Sean MacBride
Government
Law
Strict
Control
Secret
Those
Seem
Above
Structures
Within
Surveillance
Establishments
Regard
Which
Themselves
Your
Keep
I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.
Sean Quinn
Life
My Life
Building
Own
Control
Spent
Longer
Up
Which
Businesses
The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo taking control of the Quinn Group of companies, which I and a loyal team spent a lifetime building.
Sean Quinn
Building
Control
Pay
Group
Spent
Those
Following
Vast
Vast Majority
Lifetime
Taking
Majority
Due
However
Debt
Owed
Cannot
Which
Loyal
Team
Companies
Now
Disputed
Loans
I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really hard to go halfway. Like with modeling, for example, I kind of give up all creative control, and that's just that. But when it comes to my own personal art, I'm very O.C.D. I see something a very certain way.
Selah Louise Marley
Art
Creative
Example
Own
Control
Way
Kind
See
Give
Something
My Own
Like
For Example
Halfway
Narrative
Go
Up
Very
Modeling
Personal
Any
Owning
Just
Depends
Either
Really
Certain
Certain Way
Creative Control
Hard
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