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There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called up is prove that I deserve to be there.
John McGinn
Good
Desperate
Country
Prove
Lot
Up
Get
Deserve
Play
I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.
John Oliver
Me
You
Jokes
Desperate
Laugh
Comedian
How
Sounds
Realize
Ask
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
Jon Meacham
Religion
Desperate
Politician
Birthplace
Say
Obama
Tend
Attacks
Come
Identity
Himself
Opponent
Questioning
Sell
Romney
If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.
Jonas Armstrong
You
Yourself
Money
Sometimes
Desperate
Whatever
Other
Type
Find
Restrain
Known
Hand
Want
Then
Really
Certain
Actor
As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.
Jonas Mekas
Me
Confused
Desperate
Poet
Duty
Way
Those
Solidarity
Eye
Out
Seeking
Feel
Around
Felt
Always
Misused
Antenna
Happening
Who
I feel maybe at times I've just been a bit too desperate to do well, almost tried too hard. But even though I haven't contributed as I would have liked, I've still enjoyed the cricket just as much.
Jos Buttler
Desperate
Too
Cricket
Bit
Though
Would
Tried
Almost
Feel
Liked
Well
Still
Been
Times
Maybe
Just
Just As Much
Much
Hard
Even
Enjoyed
I was on 'Desperate Housewives' and that was my crash course on being on national television topless. Also, I do what I can in between scenes: push-ups, a little free weights. I knew going in it would be a big part of the show.
Josh Henderson
Desperate
Free
Big
National
Topless
Television
Would
Would-Be
Scenes
Push-Ups
Part
Knew
Weights
Between
Also
Course
Housewives
Big Part
National Television
Going
Being
Crash
In-Between
Little
Show
'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something.
Julia Holter
Character
Me
Desperation
Desperate
Feeling
Character Development
Kind
Favorites
About
Something
More
Clear
Development
Because
Narrative
Least
Imposed
Very
Than
Any
Just
Story
Which
Little
Much
Deep
Search
Imagery
For me, as a kid desperate to make music, I thought the only way I could do it was to try to be a superstar - which is a fun thing to be, but it can be exhausting and degrading.
Justin Tranter
Music
Me
Try
Desperate
Thought
Way
Kid
Degrading
Only
Superstar
Could
Make
Exhausting
Which
Fun
Fun Thing
Thing
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.
Kate DiCamillo
Desperate
Those
Kids
Would
Learn
Read
Reader
Always
Been
Anything
Politicians used to be leaders. Now they follow voters, desperate for a tick in a box.
Katie Hopkins
Desperate
Politicians
Follow
Leaders
Tick
Voters
Box
Used
Now
I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
Kenneth Branagh
Work
People
Desperate
Only
Cast
Talent
Dead
Ready
Were
Dying
Really
Who
Whose
Believed
Necessary
Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.
Kenny Dalglish
Best
Great
Training
Desperate
Club
Has-Been
Well
Am
Been
Very
Bunch
Get
Going
Just
Lads
Paul
Team
When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you've spent all day muttering into a microphone that's two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping.
Kevin Whately
Day
You
Desperate
Spent
Bit
Collapsed
All Day
Out
TV
TV Series
Totally
Wings
Voice
Head
Feel
Sort
Box
Because
Real
Spread
End
Get
Microphone
Unfit
Your
Inches
Series
Actor
Two
I never let myself get desperate.
Kim Alexis
Myself
Desperate
Never
Get
There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.
Kirstie Alley
You
Desperate
Somebody
Older
More
Always
Than
Richer
Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.
Kurt Eichenwald
Game
People
Casino
Desperate
Lasts
Back
Back Up
Hoping
Inside
Rush
Something
Bets
Fooled
Price
Bubbles
Never
Investment
Bounce
Real
Up
Goes
Going
Who
Popping
Keep
Bring
When I first started auditioning, I was so, dare I say, desperate and hungry for a job that I pretty much went out for anything my agents sent me with a few exceptions.
Lana Condor
Me
Desperate
Job
First
Few
Say
Dare
Hungry
Out
Pretty
Exceptions
Auditioning
Anything
Sent
Agents
Much
Started
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Lewis Mumford
Vote
Survival
People
Political
Desperate
Every
Baby
Unable
Find
New
New Baby
Blind
Protest
Effective
Against
Register
Themselves
Act
Who
Biological
Extermination
When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended up here because I had nowhere else to go, having just escaped from China after Tiananmen. I was in a new country where I didn't understand the language, didn't know anybody, and didn't have a penny to my name. So I was desperate and afraid.
Li Lu
Language
Desperate
Penny
First
Country
Else
Having
Dirt
Had
Columbia
Columbia University
New
Name
Come
Know
Because
Understand
Came
Go
Up
Escaped
Did
Ended
Just
Afraid
Anybody
Where
After
China
Poor
Choose
Nowhere
Here
University
During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, I was one of those fierce partisans desperate for the first black candidate with a serious shot at the White House to win the nomination.
Lionel Shriver
Win
Desperate
Black
First
White
White House
Those
Obama
Between
Hillary
House
Democratic
Hillary Clinton
Nomination
Protracted
Clinton
Candidate
Barack
Barack Obama
Fierce
Shot
Serious
I'm way too famous and rich to be on a dating app, but if I get very desperate by the time I'm 60, I'll go on Tinder. Or I'll go on 'Millionaire Matchmaker'; I'll call Patti Stanger.
Lisa Lampanelli
Time
Millionaire
Desperate
Rich
Too
Way
Dating
Call
Go
Very
Get
Famous
App
By The Time
I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.
Little Simz
Desperate
Sign
Hungry
Record
Record Deal
Like
Deal
Very
Just
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Livy
Desperate
Difficult
Cases
Safest
Boldest
I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.
Mackenzie Davis
Time
Me
Travel
Desperate
College
Expectation
Months
Hated
London
Pretty
Paris
Like
Got
Go
Discovered
Modeled
Six
Wanted
While
Little
Little While
I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
Maggie Rowe
Success
Desperate
Personal
Want
Shrunk
Need
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