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If selling had been part of his job description, Rusbridger, who never met a pound he had to earn that didn't disgust him in some visceral way, would have been disqualified long ago. Indeed, his early enthusiasm for the Internet - and a continuing principle of faith for him - was that it was free.
Michael Wolff
Faith
Internet
Job
Enthusiasm
Free
Long
Met
Earn
Way
Visceral
Indeed
Job Description
Would
Some
Pound
Never
Had
He
Part
Him
Principle
Continuing
Been
His
Selling
Disgust
Who
Description
Disqualified
Early
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
Michelle Dean
Risks
Simple
Plot
Spoiling
Stranger
Description
Even
Brief
Things
I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.
Mike Myers
Saying
Me
Parents
Before
Complete
Born
Without
Were
Canada
Many
Description
Englishman
Liverpool
Things
I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's 'Somebody's Baby' or Nina Berberova's 'The Tattered Cloak.'
Miranda July
Woman
Somebody
Before
Thinking
Baby
Nina
Drawn
Something
Never
Been
Diane
Cloak
Familiar
Articulated
Often
Cook
Description
How can you run for president if you don't know the job description?
Mohamed ElBaradei
You
Job
President
Job Description
Run
Know
How
Description
From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.
Nick Foles
You
Game
Think
Everyone
Enter
Some
More
Tag
League
Tidy
Sticks
Label
Than
Accurate
Often
Wants
Regardless
Whether
Moment
Description
Slap
Bring
What I learned was that we Millennials possess one factor that supposedly sets us apart from those who came before us. Is it incredibly clear skin, since most of us took Accutane at some point? No. The recurring description of our generation is 'entitled.'
Paul Downs Colaizzo
Generation
Entitled
Before
Skin
Sets
Incredibly
Took
Our
Our Generation
Possess
Those
Some
Point
Factor
Clear
Recurring
Since
Supposedly
Most
Learned
Came
Apart
Us
Who
Description
Millennials
What is it that the scientist finds useful in being able to relate a positive description of behavior to the solution of a maximizing problem? That is what a good deal of my own early work was about.
Paul Samuelson
Positive
Work
Good
Problem
Behavior
Own
Early Work
Relate
Solution
Finds
Able
About
My Own
Deal
Scientist
Maximizing
Being
Useful
Good Deal
Description
Early
To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.
Richard Sherman
You
Evil
Guess
Something
Know
Fit
Painted
Description
Villain
For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.
Rick Riordan
Me
You
Book
Writing
Will
Drop
Lose
Kid
Kids
Stay
More
Adult
Because
Audience
Discriminating
Going
Pacing
While
Might
Pages
Your
Description
Harder
I describe my sound as sugar trap, that's not really a description that's really who I am, that's my swag, that's how I talk and walk.
Rico Nasty
Walk
Sugar
Talk
How
Sound
Am
Really
Trap
Who
Describe
Description
Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.
Rob Delaney
Day
Every Day
Lie
Job
Politicians
Every
Job Description
Just
Description
What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases that would stick with the reader.
Robert J. Sawyer
Love
Beautiful
Time
Language
Other
Evocative
Would
Phrases
Haunting
Writers
Had
Most
Reader
Stick
Description
If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.
Robert Redford
You
Back
Teeth
Wearing
About
Only
Know
Talk
Tall
How
Issue
Reporters
Want
Your
Description
I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.
Rudy Giuliani
You
Yourself
Somebody
Own
Think
Else
Adequately
Crisis
Tell
See
About
Only
Because
Impose
Manage
Much
Description
Need
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
Sarah Hall
Work
Language
Plot
Seem
Readily
Metaphors
Form
Pacing
Available
Description
Harder
Things
There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.
Sebastian Faulks
Love
War
Food
Great
Book
World
Cheese
France
Run
Eastern
Eaten
Unbelievable
About
Kitchen
Week
Had
He
Written
Smells
House
Wrote
Pigeon
Passages
George
Been
His
Worked
Who
Many
Description
Second
Peasant
World War
Second World War
It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.
Sebastian Vettel
Me
Experience
Giving
Power
Thanks
Plenty
Unbelievable
Beyond
Looked
Learnt
Test
Brakes
After
Engine
Team
Description
Brilliantly
Chance
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a victim of my own job description. Others don't inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money.
Seth Shostak
Money
Better
Will
Job
Thought
Looking
Own
Victim
Others
Spend
Ways
Job Description
Possible
Worthy
Some
My Own
Both
Better Ways
Self-Evident
Always
Inevitably
Motivation
Patently
While
Agree
Description
At some point, I stumbled across an article about OCD. As I read, I was blown away by how identical the writer's description was to what I was experiencing. It was overwhelmingly comforting to finally realize that I wasn't alone and that nothing was wrong with me. It was a treatable disorder.
Shannon Purser
Alone
Me
Comforting
Nothing
Finally
Some
About
Point
Writer
Wrong
Stumbled
Identical
Read
How
Article
Blown
Blown Away
Experiencing
Realize
Across
Disorder
Description
Away
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Game
Entertainment
Creative
People
Mind
Otherwise
Marketing
Entertainment Industry
Able
Also
Industry
Fit
Up
Cannot
Against
Stand
Stand Up
Who
Creative Mind
Many
Company
Description
Designers
A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.
Sophia Amoruso
Work
People
Job
Three
Young
Months
Job Description
More
Put
Employ
Lot
Expect
Than
After
Young People
Who
Description
Raise
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.
Stanley Hauerwas
History
Trust
Age
Enough
Assumption
Our
Must
Postmodern
Periods
Calling
Practices
Am
Intellectual
Times
Privileges
Just
Modernist
Modernity
Description
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.
Thomas Frank
Job
Nation
Strategy
Nowadays
Job Description
Obama
Administration
City
Seems
Economic
Recovery
Pursuit
Part
Economic Recovery
Also
Vibrant
Planners
Description
Universal
I had a spell no more striking than other people of my job description. I did all the things you weren't supposed to do. I had a motto: When in doubt, try it. I went out and committed experience.
Thomas McGuane
You
Experience
People
Try
Job
Doubt
Other
Spell
Striking
Job Description
Out
More
Had
Supposed
Were
Motto
Than
Did
Committed
When In Doubt
Description
Things
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.
Thomas Perry
Character
Sit
Down
Project
Sight
Some
Something
Write
Ideas
Begin
List
Going
Just
Sketch
Description
Even
Monologue
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