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I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'
Christine and the Queens
Myself
Character
Woman
Stage
Think
Finally
Say
Excuse
Going
Oh
Wanted
Used
Who
Christine
Needed
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
Christopher Hampton
Good
Day
Better
Looking
Sit
Nice
Think
Films
Say
Good Movies
Potential
Excuse
Make
Read
Very
Often
Just
Which
Movies
Whole
Novels
Love's an excuse to get hurt.
Conor Oberst
Love
Hurt
Excuse
Get
There's always an excuse to celebrate someone you love.
Cynthia Rowley
Love
You
Celebrate
Someone
Excuse
Always
The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.
Dave Blood
Time
Good
Great
Together
Result
Pleased
Projects
Great Fun
Putting
Excuse
Make
Because
Am
Provided
End
End Result
Get
Get Together
Process
Again
Us
Fun
Four
Two
When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
David Blunkett
Good
Me
Travel
Out
London
Some
Gives
Park
Excuse
Also
Because
Exercise
Close
Get
Convenience
Being
James
Which
Much
Needed
The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.
David Bowie
Me
You
Whatever
Excuse
Period
Call
Truest
Left
Jack
Revolutionary
Any
Where
Want
Form
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
David Frum
Environmental
Government
Me
Rich
See
Spirit
Seemed
More
Economic
Environment
Environmental Issue
Attention
Like
Voters
Excuse
Issue
Issues
Years
Government Regulation
Which
Paying
Regulation
Less
Including
Societies
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.
David Gerrold
Great
Science
Television
Eye
See
Excuse
Because
Science Fiction
Lots
Effects
Candy
Fiction
Frustrated
Movies
Hollywood
Special
Special Effects
Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too.
David Muir
Myself
News
Travel
World
Every
Too
Kid
Hunger
Out
Backyard
Would
Inside
See
Had
Knew
Excuse
Go
Get
Wanted
Peter
Evening
Evening News
Watch
Playing
Thirst
What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.
David Oyelowo
Great
Women
Words
Men
Men And Women
Become
Own
Heroism
Our
Way
Great Men
Gives
Excuse
Bravely
Them
Us
Act
Actions
Lives
Images
I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.
Dax Shepard
Technology
No Excuse
Excuse
Make
Opinion
Just
Where
Movie
Place
Really
Your
I'm the type of fighter who has never made an excuse. I fought with a broken rib, broken leg.
Demetrious Johnson
Broken
Made
Fighter
Type
Never
Excuse
Leg
Who
Fought
In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.
Dorothy Hamill
Myself
Teen
Other
Teen Years
Hung
Out
Having
Leading
Buddies
Missed
Like
Excuse
Parties
Mostly
Because
Partying
Were
Years
Up
Loved
Anyway
Skaters
Skating
Really
Skip
Socializing
Thing
Enjoying
Olympics
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
Edmund White
Me
Together
Young
Desperately
Assure
Teenager
Only
Excuse
Looked
Identity
Read
Confirm
Might
Things
When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.
Edmund White
Love
Myself
Me
Gay
Woman
Passion
Pure
Believe
Guilty
Scarcely
Silly
Feel
Like
Obstinacy
Excuse
Am
Sounds
Falls
Explain
Convinced
Even
Her
Keeps
We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Edward McKendree Bounds
God
Spiritual
Prayer
Will
Poverty
Power
Preaching
Secret
Our
Ways
Spirit
True
Excuse
Lack
May
Urgent
Holy
Holy Spirit
Many
Found
Presence
If you see a bad live action film, what are the conclusions you draw? Typically, it is that they made a bunch of mistakes, a bad script, wrong casting. You get into 2D, and you get a few films that are not strong films. And what is the conclusion? That it's 2D? I beg to differ. It's a convenient excuse, but it's just wrong.
Edwin Catmull
You
Strong
Made
Mistakes
Few
Action
Live
Films
Draw
Bad
See
Casting
Wrong
Excuse
Conclusion
Conclusions
Beg
Bunch
Get
Just
Differ
Convenient
Script
Action Film
Live Action
Film
One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.
Eli Roth
Life
Great
You
Free
Nice
Say
Press
Tours
Like
Excuse
Joys
Always
Making
Making Movies
Afford
Get
Getting
Just
Clothing
Movies
Now
Why
Suit
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
Emily Mortimer
Buy
Home
Spring
Says
Postage
London
More
Come
Excuse
Go
Chicken
Any
Want
Anyone
Stamp
Dad
I've criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress before 2007. However, that is no excuse to just continue with more of the same or, as the case is now, to make it worse. Under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's budget, we will double the national debt in five years and triple it in 10.
Erik Paulsen
Discipline
Will
National
Before
Congress
Worse
Criticized
No Excuse
Triple
Case
More
Budget
Excuse
Nancy
House
Make
Fiscal
However
Continue
Years
National Debt
Debt
Five
Same
Controlled
Lack
Just
Republicans
Double
Speaker
Now
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
Frank Moore Colby
Day
Great
Man
Heart
Down
Every
Ought
Sun
Inquisitive
Shadow
Cast
Shall
Through
He
Adventure
Longer
Hour
Excuse
Without
Continuance
His
Question
Dies
Every Man
Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.
Gail Collins
Humble
Conservative
Party
Tea
Other
Cincinnati
Those
Scandal
Status
Wrong
Excuse
Targeted
Office
Being
Center
IRS
Poor
Scrutiny
Workers
Tea Party
Organizations
Special
Groups
Now
Hometown
Deeply
Applied
I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.
Gary Oldman
Today
You
Too Much
Too
Back
Drank
Would
Would-Be
Drink
Could
Like
Excuse
Look
Terrible
Call
Another
Person
Just
Much
Mechanism
Thing
Coping
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
Geoff Dyer
Think
Though
Bored
Boredom
No Excuse
Propensity
Absolutely
Failing
Excuse
Terrible
Sort
Opinion
Am
Personal
Being
Even
They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.
George Harrison
Beatles
World
Money
Nervous
Gave
Mad
Systems
Kind
Blamed
Excuse
Go
Did
Then
Us
Used
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