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I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
James M. Cain
Tough
Make
Am
Effort
Any
Grim
Conscious
Things
Conscious Effort
The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.
James P. Gorman
Time
Architecture
Sense
Complex
Rules
Thousands
Observed
Dodd-Frank
Makes
Effort
Same
Same Time
Legislators
Produced
Act
Pages
Basic
Number
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
James Salter
You
Writing
Words
Progress
Further
Right Words
Find
Somehow
Something
Point
Idea
Reach
Until
Make
Effort
Trying
Where
Either
Right
When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.
James Wan
Time
You
People
More
More People
Pieces
Making
Effort
Movie
Bigger
Much
Require
Set
When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.
Jamie Hyneman
Some
Something
Head
Like
Smells
Qualities
Deal
Go
Effectively
Textures
Effort
Problem-Solving
Room
Specific
Program
I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.
Jane Green
Life
Love
Me
Love Me
Busy
Think
Somewhat
Lazy
Know
Make
Am
Friend
Very
Effort
Them
Much
Busy Life
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.
Jane Hirshfield
Love
Path
Understanding
Sense
Transformation
Inside
See
Poems
Poetry
Feel
Toward
New
Looked
Learn
Offer
Effort
Gestures
Specific
The futuristic city on 'Legends Walking's cover rejects any connection with the contemporary setting of 'Changer.' It was as if every effort was made to keep readers of 'Changer' from finding this stand-alone sequel.
Jane Lindskold
Made
Every
Setting
Futuristic
City
Finding
Contemporary
Readers
Cover
Walking
Effort
Legends
Any
Sequel
Connection
Keep
Rejects
I've been very blessed to have worked with two incredible directors - Barry Jenkins on 'Moonlight' and Ted Melfi on 'Hidden Figures' - and it was a collaborative effort in shaping my characters, Teresa and Mary.
Janelle Monae
Blessed
Incredible
Collaborative
Hidden
Moonlight
Characters
Directors
Mary
Shaping
Been
Very
Effort
Worked
Figures
Barry
Ted
Two
Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our work to protect and liberate ourselves.
Janet Mock
Work
Liberate
Our
Ourselves
Folk
Obligated
Color
Protect
Effort
Experiences
Should
Help
Play
Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.
Janet Yellen
Wealth
Opportunity
Will
Degree
Luck
Would
Outcomes
Some
Variations
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Course
Because
Inequality
Occur
Effort
Produce
Skill
Even
Income
I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.
Jann Wenner
Democracy
Seriously
Important
Believe
Think
Objectivity
Facts
Taking
Journalism
Stuff
Discourse
Very
Effort
Regard
Public
Public Discourse
Much
Such A Thing
Serious
Thing
My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.
Jason Babin
Success
Me
Degree
Teammates
Benefit
Those
Ability
Perform
Also
How
Up
Effort
Success Is
Then
Certain
Certain Degree
Team
Things
Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.
Jason Mraz
Great
Yourself
Challenge
Live
Way
Writer
Also
Make
Great Way
Effort
Interesting
Show
I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.
Jason Schwartzman
Work
You
Yourself
Better
Find
More
Put
Effort
Just
Harder
There's something to be said about a girl who knows what she wants. One of my favorite girls to dress is Diane Kruger. It's always so easy with her. I know her body and what works. When it's right, it's not a lot of effort.
Jason Wu
Girl
Favorite
Easy
Dress
About
Something
Know
She
Knows
Said
Always
Diane
Lot
Effort
Wants
Body
Who
Works
Her
Right
Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.
Jay Parini
Bible
Sense
Christian
Back
Everything
Some
Push
True
Within
Readings
Tradition
Text
Effort
Modern
Literal
Against
Century
Fundamentalism
Christian Tradition
Suggested
My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
Jeff Foxworthy
Good
Family
Wife
Feeling
Side
Took
Analytical
Kids
Out
Bad
Put
Am
Lot
Effort
After
Turn
Then
Means
Daddy
Her
Raising
You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.
Jen Lancaster
Me
You
Impossible
Think
Appropriate
Say
Kids
Almost
Know
Make
How
Effort
Conscious
Conscious Effort
Make an effort to do the things that you enjoy instead of being lazy about it. Life is worth the hassle.
Jen Sincero
Life
You
Worth
Enjoy
Hassle
About
Lazy
Instead
Make
Effort
Being
Being Lazy
Things
Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.
Jennifer Granholm
Youth
Money
Spending
Obama
Online
More
Outreach
New
New Media
Targeted
Dominate
Than
Effort
Romney
Far
Team
Media
I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.
Jeremy Sisto
Life
Too Much
Whatever
Too
Kind
Put
Doing
Lot
Off
Times
Effort
Much
Dad
Ridiculous
Now
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
Jerome Bruner
Work
Art
Experience
Mask
Possible
Emerge
Real
Question
Effort
May
Whether
Explain
Meanings
Deep
Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.
Jerome Isaac Friedman
Physics
Made
Energy
Research
Group
Colleagues
High
High Energy
Invaluable
Students
Had
Outstanding
Been
Very
Effort
Contributions
Experimental
Which
Fortunate
Who
Group Effort
Associated
I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.
Jerry Cantrell
Together
Guitar
Thoughtful
Fine
Put
Sing
Becomes
Effort
Play
There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
Jerry Falwell
Christmas
Steal
Concerted Effort
Been
Effort
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