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Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.
Alan Stern
Before
Back
Giant
Pluto
Like
Look
Discovered
Did
Either
Planets
Belong
Belt
I did write a lot of TV themes - I wrote about 45 of them, and a couple of which are still reference and popular today, like 'Diff'rent Strokes' and 'Facts of Life.' But I was a limited musician.
Alan Thicke
Life
Today
Musician
Strokes
TV
About
Write
Facts
Like
Couple
Wrote
Limited
Still
Reference
Lot
Did
Which
Them
Themes
Popular
It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.
Alan Vega
Life
Me
My Life
Changed
Saw
Pretty
Did
Much
Pop
Iggy
There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.
Alan Yang
Life
Myself
Crazy
Speak
Psychic
My Life
Few
Own
Saw
Gulf
My Own
Only
Shame
Between
Learn
Because
Exists
Times
Did
Personal
Paternal
Chinese
Grandma
Really
Grandparents
English
Ever
I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both.
Alastair Reynolds
Education
Good
You
Physics
Painting
Drawing
System
Shakespeare
Both
Had
Also
Scientist
Very
Did
Artistic
Want
Means
Choose
English
Streak
As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.
Alastair Reynolds
Buy
You
Book
Think
Enormous
Kid
Slightly
Magnificent
Never
Disappointing
Over
Come
Contents
Always
Hovering
Cover
Covers
Up
Did
Going
Which
Planet
Novels
Lived
Chris
In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.
Alastair Reynolds
Work
People
Space
Old
Books
Way
Bit
Rusty
Wrong
Town
Around
Said
Revelation
How
Go
Up
Did
Quite
Grew
Infrastructure
Explanation
Asked
Meant
Full
Sea
Barry
Why
Things
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
People
Think
Everyone
Books
Bought
Velvet
Come
Wrote
Underground
Equivalent
Did
Literary
Who
Many
Novel
When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.
Alber Elbaz
Teacher
Dreams
Day
Me
Every Day
Old
Year
Every
Gave
Dresses
About
She
Years
End
Did
Either
Sketch
Wore
Sketching
Fantasy
Her
I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?' And if you're able to say yes, in any field, you've won. If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
Albert Brooks
Saying
You
Yourself
Big
Become
Field
Think
Say
Solving
Able
Write
Part
Knit
How
Were
Goal
Brain
Yes
Won
Did
Any
Your
Paint
Express
Express Yourself
Star
Ever
Need
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
Albert Claude
Failure
Relative
Destroyed
Constituents
Brutality
Attempt
Had
Employed
Isolate
Been
Did
Cell
Happen
Might
Technique
All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.
Albert Finney
Needs
You
More
Through
Feel
Like
Well
Read
Got
Did
Script
Alabama
Jessica
Albert
I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.
Albert Finney
Hope
Day
Will
Clothes
Musical
Tricks
Mirrors
Come
Were
Up
Did
Done
Flat
Mean
Turn
Film
They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'
Albert Finney
Best
You
Own
Enjoy
Say
Kids
Favourite
Exist
Up
Did
Which
Mean
Your
Right
Bringing
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
Alberto Manguel
Buy
You
Library
Book
Sense
Think
Everything
Books
Way
Right Way
Would
Divided
Had
Knew
Categories
Because
Were
Fit
Times
Did
Maybe
Psychiatric
Which
Room
Organised
Serious
Right
Needed
Treatment
It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything else - even though it was a genre film and existed at a more studio level, the script and the characters were so well written.
Alden Ehrenreich
Funny
Beautiful
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Though
Characters
More
Studio
Written
Well
Genre
Well-Written
Were
Existed
Did
Same
Script
Reason
Even
Film
Creatures
Level
I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.
Alden Ehrenreich
Me
First
Hell
Francis
Out
Spoiled
Ford
Did
Which
Film
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
Alec Baldwin
Older
President
States
Seems
Idea
Get
Did
Wanted
Really
Less
United
United States
Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Man
Thought
Met
Solo
City
He
Him
Concert
Octopus
Mexico
Mexico City
Pat
Did
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Father
Three
Cried
Later
Cat
Days
Cry
Lot
Did
Died
I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.
Aleksa Palladino
Time
Hurt
People
Pain
Think
General
Because
Least
Very
Did
Any
Children
Want
Loved
Hard
Hard Time
Expressing
I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.
Aleksandar Hemon
Experience
People
Some People
Country
Living
Enough
Harmonious
States
Would
Stay
Inside
No Experience
Some
Never
Had
Knew
Hours
Been
Mode
Than
America
Get
Intend
Did
May
Being
Less
Lucky
United
United States
Necessarily
Here
We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Today
You
Together
Vision
Free
Live
Side
Would
Would-Be
Direction
Poland
Without
Years
Years Ago
Led
Did
Same
Which
Us
Stand
Your
Doubts
Twenty-Five
Right
Right Direction
I'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware of.
Alesha Dixon
Woman
Lying
Mindful
Say
Something
Colour
Always
Am
Did
Being
Aware
I have definitely had times in my career where I have wondered whether I have had to work a bit harder, prove myself more, but I would never want to be in a position where I am saying, 'Oh, I did not get that job because of my race.'
Alesha Dixon
Work
Saying
Myself
Job
Bit
Definitely
Would
More
Never
Had
Because
Am
Prove
Wondered
Times
Get
Did
Oh
Where
Want
Whether
Race
Harder
Career
Position
When I first got the call to do 'Britain's Got Talent', it was actually Amanda who was one of the first people to reach out to me and suggest we go out for a coffee and have a conversation. And we did, and it was great.
Alesha Dixon
Great
Me
Conversation
People
Coffee
First
Out
Talent
Reach
Call
First People
Got
Amanda
Go
Did
Who
Actually
Suggest
Britain
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