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The metalcore has been left behind. It's not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it's obviously not the direction we would write songs in.
M. Shadows
Listening
Has-Been
Would
Find
Something
Direction
Write
Songs
Obviously
Been
Left
Any
Behind
Us
Enjoyment
If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
MS Dhoni
Life
Work
Good
You
Balance
Achieve
Other
Cricket
Something
Direction
Studies
Practical
Than
Person
Efforts
Any
May
Where
Want
Then
Successful
Your
Harder
Play
Right
Right Direction
These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.
Marc Andreessen
Home
You
Words
Think
Staying
Direction
Having
Headed
Days
Like
Underwear
Blogging
Option
Your
Things
Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.
Marc Platt
Good
Communicate
Ability
Direction
Often
Based
It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including the magnitude of the supply shock. But what's probably more important is the probability of the supply shock translating into sustainable embedded inflation.
Marek Belka
Inflation
Important
Embedded
About
Direction
More
Magnitude
Factors
Supply
Course
Shock
Probability
Sustainable
Pace
Translating
Many
Function
Including
Set
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
Margaret Cho
You
Remove
Beauty
Once
Easier
Direction
Than
Thankfully
Again
Swipe
Right
Apply
Right Direction
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
Marilynne Robinson
Education
Me
Writing
Despair
Those
Has-Been
Direction
Most
Nonfiction
Been
Years
Even
Serious
Kept
Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.
Mario Balotelli
Good
Me
Heart
Sometimes
Field
Believe
Astray
Follow
Direction
Steer
Head
Instinct
Instincts
Leads
Off
Which
Right
Right Direction
Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're heading,' and then it's my job to get everything else out of the way. All the other things that can become a distraction keep us from executing well. Get those out of the way, because the team ultimately needs to run in that direction and execute well.
Marissa Mayer
Needs
You
Management
Job
Become
Defense
Other
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Way
Say
Those
Out
Run
Distraction
Direction
Heading
Execute
Executing
Well
Because
Ultimately
Get
Where
Then
Us
Team
Keep
Things
Basically
It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting.
Mark Billingham
Work
Garden
Path
Crime
Joke
Think
Way
Direction
Leads
Along
Know
Until
Audience
Sound
Least
Coming
Were
Surprising
Very
Hit
Get
Expecting
Same
May
Much
Novel
I've been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don't know the direction of the country, the person you need most is a steady conservative hand like Mark Kirk in the Senate to be advising the president, especially on national security topics ... which is my particular expertise after 23 years in the Navy.
Mark Kirk
You
Age
Conservative
Country
National
Thinking
President
Mark
Topics
Security
Steady
Kirk
Direction
Particular
Like
Know
Most
Advising
Been
Years
Trump
Hand
Person
Senate
National Security
Where
After
Expertise
Which
Navy
Need
It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
Mark Zuckerberg
You
World
Understanding
Nice
Philosophy
Easy
About
Direction
Both
Openness
Pragmatic
Go
Getting
Being
Where
Different
Want
Moving
Really
Requires
Different Thing
Thing
The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction.
Mark Zuckerberg
About
Direction
Push
Industry
Lot
Very
Declaration
Fiercely
Companies
Whole
Uniting
Compete
Coherent
This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.
Martin Sheen
Vision
Understanding
Military
This Administration
Administration
Citizens
Direction
Area
Clear
Without
His
Led
Being
Bush
Us
Asked
Ted Cruz, if he's elected president, the first thing he will do is return Don't Ask Don't Tell and roll back same-sex marriage laws. Which is law - hello - you can't really take it away. It's really terrifying the direction we're going in now.
Martina Navratilova
You
Marriage
Law
Will
First
President
Back
Tell
Laws
Direction
Take
He
Cruz
Return
First Thing
Terrifying
Roll
Going
The First Thing
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
Which
Ask
Elected
Really
Hello
Now
Away
Thing
Ted
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
Mary-Louise Parker
Me
Comedy
Too Much
College
Too
Direction
Leaning
Were
Going
After
Much
Teachers
Unfortunately, in football, sometimes you think that things might go one way, but eventually, they take an unexpected turn or head in another direction.
Massimiliano Allegri
You
Sometimes
Think
Way
One-Way
Direction
Take
Football
Head
Another
Go
Unexpected
Unfortunately
Might
Turn
Eventually
Things
For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon?
Matt Bomer
Work
Me
Change
Pilot
Characters
See
Direction
Potential
Could
Know
Look
Also
Go
Improve
Maybe
Story
Landscape
Works
Actor
Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.
Matt Czuchry
Me
History
Together
Science
Events
Political
Made
College
Lawyer
Year
Took
Kind
One Thing
Horribly
Direction
Pursue
Rethink
New
New Direction
Came
Political Science
Did
Senior
Senior Year
Being
Confluence
Double
Acting
Planning
Thing
Career
2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.
Matt Taibbi
Government
Constitution
Safety
Half
National
Other
Security
Prompted
Direction
Name
Economy
Up
Authorities
American
National Security
American Economy
After
While
Public
Public Safety
Tear
Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.
Matthew Sweet
Home
Drive
Feelings
Nothing
Every
Guess
Back
Everything
About
Someone
Direction
Could
Mixed
Mixed Feelings
Stop
Then
Should
Mile
Growing
Grown
Now
Thinks
Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.
Matthew Underwood
Journey
Sometimes
Path
Own
Our
Some
Direction
Take
Learn
Another
Souls
Repeated
Years
Same
Lessons
Exposure
Eventually
Conscience
Inner
Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar with women leaders, and so we question their skills. As women, we always need to work harder to prove our competence.
Maureen Chiquet
Work
Women
Men
Sense
Our
Seems
Direction
Lead
Leaders
Like
Self-Doubt
Force
Always
Prove
Question
Familiar
Skills
Less
Display
Harder
Competence
Need
That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
Maurice Sendak
Love
You
Mother
Father
Parents
Live
Critical
Seemed
Direction
Most
Without
Always
Test
Loss
Child
Confronted
My life could have easily gone another way. But I had this one teacher who gave me direction and got me into performing. She got me into touring with an educational play called 'The Inner Circle' along with Pedro Zamora from MTV's 'The Real World.'
Mel Rodriguez
Life
Teacher
Me
World
Circle
My Life
Gone
Gave
Way
Easily
Direction
Could
Had
Touring
Performing
Along
She
Another
Another Way
Got
Real
Educational
The Real World
Real World
Who
Play
Inner
Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.
Menander
Intelligence
Benefits
Better
Clever
Responsible
Direction
Greatest
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