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I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.
Tom Weston-Jones
You
Everyone
Machine
TV
TV Series
See
Smallest
Robotic
Sounds
Same
Goes
Quite
Just
Being
Size
Biggest
Just One
Description
Series
Film
Play
Basically
Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.
Tony Campolo
Time
Creation
Believe
Taken
Genesis
Like
Most
Account
May
Six
Different
Stages
Which
Different Stages
Description
Each
Christians
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.
Tracy Chevalier
Women
Care
Older
Approach
Adjectives
Out
Minimum
Wearing
More
Tend
Layers
Write
Take
Know
Because
Women Are
Same
Any
Confident
Just
Sentences
Younger
Busier
Description
Keep
Older Women
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Twyla Tharp
Training
Painting
Every
Dancing
Piano
Had
Sort
German
Formal
Little
Shorthand
Lessons
Description
Started
My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.
Walter Kirn
Me
Mother
Heights
Laugh
Out
Would
Find
Push
True
Make
Make Me Laugh
Boy
Sensed
Story
Used
Plans
Description
Her
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
Work
Dreams
Good
You
Science
Job
Dreamers
Important
Our
Job Description
Bad
Dreaming
See
Writers
Part
Also
Well
Sort
Important Part
Public
Realists
Description
The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always 'nerdy,' but I liked that; it was way more interesting.
Winona Ryder
Character
First
Few
Way
Nerdy
More
Liked
Always
Did
Interesting
Movies
Description
The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves 'The Real New Deal Democrats' forever.
Ross Douthat
Liberals
Nixon
Instead
New
Calling
New Deal
Became
Accepted
Democrats
Deal
Reagan
Real
Forever
Former
Themselves
Who
Description
Eventually
My music has been called heavy metal, but that's not an accurate description. I'd rather call it articulate rock because it expresses many feelings and emotions.
Billy Squier
Music
Heavy Metal
Emotions
Feelings
Has-Been
Rather
Call
Because
Metal
Rock
Been
Articulate
Accurate
Heavy
Many
Description
Expresses
I think it's clear to most people that the description of pro-life Democrat is accurate. I've been very consistent. What it means is I try to support policies that help women and children both before and after birth.
Bob Casey, Jr.
Women
People
Try
Before
Think
Birth
I Think
Consistent
Both
Clear
Support
Most
Democrat
Policies
Been
Women And Children
Very
Accurate
Pro-Life
Children
After
Means
Help
Description
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
Meghan O'Rourke
Best
Grief
Rather
Merely
Read
Because
Hamlet
Than
Describing
Description
Few professions are given as much power as we entrust to those who wear the uniform of a police officer. These individuals dedicate themselves to a calling in which threats that can materialize in an instant are part of the job description.
Lee Zeldin
Police
Job
Power
Few
Those
Job Description
Wear
Threats
Given
Entrust
Instant
Part
Individuals
Police Officer
Calling
Materialize
Officer
Which
Uniform
Themselves
Much
Dedicate
Who
Description
Professions
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