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Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.
Marianne Faithfull
Me
Surrender
Brilliant
Ways
Record
Some
Rather
Entourage
Daunting
David
David Bowie
He
Bowie
Him
Were
Very
Interesting
Produce
Should
Working
Perverse
Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.
Martin Rees
Challenges
World
Focus
Everyday
Our
Indeed
Complex
Those
Intricate
Insect
Atom
Per
Cosmos
Structure
More
Daunting
Smallest
Quantum
Scientists
Intellectual
Than
Efforts
Just
Where
Cent
Either
Far
Even
Star
Presents
The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?
Martin Rees
Life
Travel
Technically
Will
First
Stars
Other
Would
Immortal
Feasible
Daunting
Could
Involved
Voyage
Matched
Motive
End
Galaxy
Cycle
Beings
Whose
Creatures
Sufficient
Millennium
Third
You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.
Matthew Macfadyen
You
Think
Films
About
Daunting
Never
Know
How
Going
When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.
Mike Colter
Life
You
Become
Think
Panic
About
Daunting
How
Caught
Up
Person
Task
Forget
Get
Trying
Same
Front
Acting
Actor
Technique
Apply
It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.
Miranda Otto
Work
You
Respect
Daunting
Coming
Little
Much
Actor
The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
Nancy Kress
Too
Otherwise
Daunting
Results
Writer
Writes
Task
Just
Process
Creating
Reason
Novel
I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that.
Nathan Sawaya
Made
Projects
Bit
Out
Dinosaur
Daunting
Taking
Stuff
Like
Done
Lego
Skeleton
Things
Career
It gets slightly daunting if you're watching the telly and everybody's gorgeous. It's just so rubbish. And I'm grateful that it's not so much anymore - it's great to see.
Olivia Colman
Great
You
Grateful
Gorgeous
Rubbish
Everybody
Slightly
Telly
See
Daunting
Gets
Just
Anymore
Much
Watching
The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.
Phil Jackson
Winter
Montana
Bit
Daunting
Little
Little Bit
Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.
Pippa Middleton
Scale
Entertaining
Daunting
Any
Stressful
In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.
Rachel Sklar
Alone
Complicated
Will
Fraught
About
Having
More
Having Children
Daunting
Through
Talk
Talking
Always
Been
Going
Children
Far
Realize
Us
Much
Now
In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!
Rachel Stevens
Me
Band
Club
Horizon
Scary
Thrill
Absolute
Daunting
Open
Feel
New
Go
Off
Brand
Brand New
Role
Now
Wide
Played
It's always daunting to start from scratch, but it's exactly what I love about my job.
Ramin Djawadi
Love
Job
Exactly
Exactly What
About
Daunting
Always
Scratch
Start
Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.
Richard Thaler
Shopping
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Daunting
Economist
Dollars
Stake
Even
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
Robert Morris
Work
You
World
Old
Think
Musics
Composers
Daunting
Had
New
Contemporary
Also
Sounds
Traditional
Were
Encouraging
Trying
Little
Create
Hard
Many
Found
These opportunities to go on Broadway are the most special thing, and although the idea of doing something for a year or more is daunting, I love it. It's my church and raises my spirit. It's good for my soul.
Roger Bart
Love
Good
Soul
Opportunities
Church
Year
Broadway
Spirit
Something
More
My Soul
Daunting
Idea
Most
Although
Doing
Go
Special
Thing
Raises
This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
Sally Schneider
Work
Book
People
Key
Some People
Understanding
Just Do It
Others
Mindset
Way
See
Some
Daunting
Mystery
Pointing
Almost
How
Permission
Listen
Just
Themselves
Help
Things
Need
A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
Sandra Bullock
You
First
Lose
Magic
Charm
Daunting
First One
Because
Want
Sequel
Thing
'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.
Sharon Bolton
Learning
Book
World
Control
Young
Our
About
More
Daunting
Mysterious
Exciting
Beyond
Because
Limitless
Place
I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.
Sienna Miller
Will
Nervous
About
More
Daunting
Taking
Powerful
Empire
Very
Than
Far
Richer
Ever
I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.
Stephen Lang
Love
You
Control
Stage
Way
Television
Out
About
Daunting
Adrenaline
Terrifying
Go
Gets
Just
Really
Film
Film And Television
As a father of two black sons now, you ask yourself, 'What do I have to do to assure the safety of these boys?' It can be daunting.
Sterling K. Brown
You
Yourself
Safety
Father
Black
Assure
Daunting
Sons
Boy
Ask
Now
Two
There's a lot of division in politics, and that is why I am grateful to be a part of a show like 'Veep.' It makes light of the daunting aspects of the political world.
Sufe Bradshaw
Politics
Grateful
World
Light
Political
Daunting
Division
Part
Like
Makes
Am
Lot
Political World
Aspects
Show
Why
Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back on track. And each time, the task became more and more and more daunting.
Susan Burton
Life
Time
Together
Job
My Life
Prison
Resolve
Back
More
More And More
Daunting
Track
Became
Left
Task
Get
Each
Each Time
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.
Terry Eagleton
Work
Home
Character
You
Language
Everything
Plot
About
Poem
Fact
Daunting
Stuff
Talk
Terms
Deal
Narrative
Fiction
Whereas
Happens
Literature
Brings
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