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Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
Alastair Campbell
Life
Wisdom
People
Personality
Madness
Big
Few
Down
Presidency
Significance
All People
Some
Wrong
Oval
Oval Office
Importance
Him
His
Clinton
Led
Office
Gets
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Interested
Really
View
Who
Boil
Moments
Media
I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's not central to my work, unlike, say, China Mieville, who's very politicised.
Alastair Reynolds
Work
People
Political
Guardian
Down
Unlike
Say
Throats
Force
Reader
Political Agenda
Very
Want
Central
China
Agenda
Thing
Last
What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year - not with a particular story or theme in mind, but just because you never know what might be useful or interesting in the long run. I much prefer to just absorb a lot of stuff and let the old unconscious chew down on it over time.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Me
You
Old
Mind
Long
Year
Down
Run
Throughout
Long Run
Never
Unconscious
Absorb
Simply
Stuff
Over
Particular
Know
Read
Because
Chew
Lot
Just
Just Because
Story
Interesting
Prefer
Might
Theme
Much
Useful
Works
When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.
Albert Brooks
Comedy
Drive
National
Gone
Down
Think
Bathroom
Television
Out
Would
Tried
Martin
Stuff
Dean
Dean Martin
Were
National Television
Clubs
Them
Then
Used
Even
NBC
Started
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
Albert Maltz
Time
Down
More
Had
New
Masses
Read
Yale
Came
Begun
By The Time
I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.
Albert Pujols
People
Responsibility
Down
Believe
Syndrome
Well
Dominican Republic
Native
Children
Republic
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
Alberto Giacometti
Master
Down
See
Could
Disappointing
Terms
Always
Form
Little
Really
I carry around a black leather Moleskine journal all the time. And I always write ideas down, especially when I'm on set and working with actors like Jeremy Irons and Viola Davis and learning from them.
Alden Ehrenreich
Time
Learning
Black
Down
Carry
Write
Davis
Journal
Like
Ideas
Around
Always
Leather
Irons
Them
Working
Jeremy
Actor
Viola
Set
Down with Dukes of Hazzard!
Alec Baldwin
Down
I could have gone down a very different path, but my parents would not let me give up football.
Aleksandar Mitrovic
Me
Path
Parents
Gone
Down
Would
Give
Could
Football
Up
Very
Different
Different Path
We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.
Aleksey Igudesman
Work
Music
Writing
Seriously
First
Stage
Down
Our
TV
Would
TV Series
Dreamt
Something
Inspiration
Write
Had
Stuff
Always
Were
Going
Rewrite
Little
Working
Original
Sat
Series
Film
Nightmare
It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.
Alex Berenson
Technology
Financial
Down
Market
Rates
Rising
Environment
Along
Principles
Go
Losers
Up
Stock
Stock Market
Stocks
Biggest
Interest
Interest Rates
Should
Companies
Fundamental
Among
Fundamental Principles
Technology Companies
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
Alex Cox
Genius
Walks
Down
Evidence
Restaurant
Critics
Some
Scene
Kitchen
Through
Steps
Over
Were
Camera
Scorsese
Goes
Where
A lot of the biking sequences in the beginning, like going down the steps and over the ramp, I of course didn't do any of that stuff. I wish I could have but I didn't.
Alex D. Linz
Wish
Beginning
Down
Ramp
Could
Steps
Stuff
Over
Like
Course
Lot
Any
Going
In The Beginning
Biking
I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.
Alex Honnold
Day
Home
Better
Free
Big
Down
Back
Valor
Soloing
Some
Part
Days
Feet
Like
Call
Am
Climbed
Doing
Been
Off
Discretion
Done
Just
Where
Big Thing
Then
Your
Ground
Routes
Thing
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
Alex Kapranos
Best
Good
You
Creative
Editing
Down
Bits
Songwriting
Essentially
Being
When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.
Alex Lifeson
Life
Myself
Me
Grateful
Wonderful
Guitar
Sit
Down
Melt
Given
Hours
Instrument
Wonderful Life
Play
Playing
I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I like to do some sort of either meditation or mental visualization or breathing exercises - something to calm my mind down because a lot of times, it's just going faster than it should.
Alex Morgan
Day
Every Day
World
Try
Mind
Calm
Down
Every
Faster
Meditation
Back
Thousand
Thousand Miles
Visualization
Some
Mental
Something
Take
Step
Hour
Like
Sort
Because
Exercises
Lot
Times
Than
Going
Just
Either
Soccer
Breathing
Really
Should
Miles
An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
Alex Pareene
Democracy
Minority
Down
Correct
Immediately
System
Would
Tactical
Economic
Sabotage
Proportional
Parliamentary
Lead
Ideological
Least
Inexorably
American
Representation
Intentional
Social
Cut
Social Democracy
Flourishing
From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.
Alex Pareene
Great
Down
Late
Possible
Tend
Voices
David
Powerful
Journalists
Most
Most Powerful
Least
Cultivate
Influential
Washington
Lively
When I entered normal school, it was hard for me to adjust sometimes. I was so unused to just sitting down in a classroom and copying off the board - simple things.
Alex Sharp
Me
Simple
Sometimes
School
Down
Entered
Adjust
Classroom
Simple Things
Unused
Normal
Off
Sitting
Just
Board
Hard
Things
Copying
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.
Alex Shoumatoff
Broken
Soil
Down
Way
Nitrogen
Bacteria
Some
Per
Cotton
Pounds
Highly
Toxic
Dead
Chemical
Fertilizer
Get
Lakes
Acre
Creating
Requiring
Usual
Washed
Growing
Zone
It's fun to come in when it's first down. It's not fun to come back in when it's third-and-long.
Alex Smith
First
Down
Back
Come
Fun
I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape.
Alex Turner
Down
Trees
Spent
Some
Fooling
Sort
Around
Years
Lot
Up
Up And Down
Forest
Very
Close
Woods
Grew
Formative
Landscape
Stranger
Need
There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.
Alex Wolff
Life
Path
Gone
Down
Think
Bad
Easy
Could
Know
Caught
Were
Up
Times
Child
Get
Being
Which
Many
Star
When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.
Alexa Chung
Fashion
Me
Walk
Down
Definitely
Out
Paris
Week
Go
Going
Shops
Stood
Often
Different
Street
Necessarily
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