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I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.
Dawn Steel
Success
Love
People
Human Being
Seen
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Guys
Never
Had
Idea
Doing
Snow
Human
Just
Being
Jamaica
Ordinary
Whether
Which
Ordinary People
Ordinary Things
Who
Cool
Things
Four
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot
Age
Genius
Events
Men
Every
Extraordinary
Unless
Melt
Carrying
Remain
Mass
Within
Occur
Up
Heat
Them
Forth
Present
Flows
When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop.
Derek Cianfrance
Great
People
Try
Extraordinary
Extraordinary People
Relationships
Backdrop
Intimate
Extremely
Details
Small
Cast
Make
Dealing
Ordinary
Against
Ordinary People
Epic
Actor
Interpersonal
Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.
Derek Cianfrance
Me
Bible
Experience
Made
Extraordinary
Saw
Sunk
Inside
Seeing
Had
Gospel
Because
According
Matthew
Child
Childhood
Stories
Realise
Rooted
Ignored
Deeply
Images
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond Tutu
Heart
Wonderful
Gift
Extraordinary
See
Sham
Children
Capacity
Expose
Things
Humbug
In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.
Dexter Filkins
War
Best
You
People
Drama
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Circumstances
Ways
Those
Worst
Circumstances
Find
See
Could
Never
Most
Very
Intense
Human
Epic
Themselves
Act
Acting
Imagine
I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.
Diane Keaton
Time
Myself
People
Wish
Met
Extraordinary
Extraordinary People
Spent
Able
More
Open
Had
Over
Protecting
Been
Years
Lot
Up
Just
Mean
Them
I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.
Dick Cheney
Face
Extraordinary
Our
Cities
Weapon
Threat
Absolutely
Idea
Deal
Terrorist
Real
Very
Middle
Convinced
Use
Measures
Now
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapon
Some of the cases which have come to light of employers being disciplined or sacked for simply trying to talk about their faith in the workplace I find quite extraordinary. The sanitisation will lead to people of faith excluding themselves from the public space and being excluded.
Dominic Grieve
Faith
People
Light
Space
Will
Extraordinary
Find
Some
About
Cases
Sacked
Lead
Simply
Excluded
Excluding
Come
Talk
Employers
Disciplined
Trying
Quite
Being
Which
Public
Themselves
Workplace
We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.
Don Yaeger
Focus
Own
Starts
Extraordinary
Our
Those
Strive
Instead
Opponents
Capabilities
Should
I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.
Doug Liman
Reality
People
Extraordinary
Detail
Real
Real People
Situations
Interested
Really
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.
Douglas Brinkley
You
Experience
Extraordinary
Harriet
Born
Parks
Know
Continuity
Get
Died
African-American
Rosa
Rosa Parks
Who
Connect
Her
Spectrum
When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.
Douglas Hodge
You
Song
Feeling
Sit
Nothing
Down
Extraordinary
Something
Write
Most
Then
I was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also amazing platforms for me to have an extraordinary life. Going through hell as a kid made me sensitive to what others in this world go through, too.
Drew Barrymore
Life
Me
World
Amazing
Made
Hell
Too
Others
Extraordinary
Kid
Through
Environments
Also
Go
Were
Trying
Going
Sensitive
Unique
Platforms
Raised
I think after 9/11, here in America, I saw something extraordinary. I saw neighbors looking after neighbors. I don't think anybody asked who anybody voted for. It was people taking care of other people.
Duff McKagan
People
Care
Looking
Think
Other
Extraordinary
Saw
Neighbors
Something
Taking
Voted
America
Anybody
After
Asked
Who
Here
What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
Eddie Redmayne
Love
Religion
Will
Gender
Other
Else
Extraordinary
Defined
Sexuality
Something
Something Else
How
Anything
Race
Thing
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
Eddie Redmayne
Fashion
Respect
Before
Extraordinary
Incredibly
Month
Must
No Idea
Never
Had
Self-Conscious
Idea
New
Also
Because
Undertaking
Been
Close
Green
Models
Front
Going
Show
Fashion Show
Row
Spectacle
Last
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
Eddie Redmayne
Time
You
First
Down
Extraordinary
On-Screen
Minds
Eyebrows
See
Could
Bouncing
Like
Were
Up
Up And Down
Screen
Mean
Acting
Who
Film
Basically
Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.
Eddie Redmayne
Work
Character
You
Book
Genius
Responsibility
Reputation
Extraordinary
Prestigious
Something
He
Feel
Piece
Readers
How
Making
Hand
Which
Portraying
Millions
Imagined
If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.
Eddie Redmayne
People
Extraordinary
Tell
Dream
Bottom
Bottom Line
Line
Stories
Interesting
Interesting People
Interesting Stories
Your
Your Dream
Play
I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
Eddie Redmayne
You
Learning
Listening
Same Thing
Think
Other
Extraordinary
Some
Directors
Same
Stop
Stopped
Again
Worked
Skins
Who
Thick
Actor
Thing
Pogba is an extraordinary talent.
Edgar Davids
Extraordinary
Talent
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.
Edward Hirsch
You
Believe
Other
Extraordinary
Some
Poems
Move
Places
Rooting
Realm
Even
Actual
You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'
Edward Zwick
Time
You
Money
Sacrifice
Extraordinary
Spend
Independent
Very
Done
Movie
Little
Means
Pawn
Amount
Raising
To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.
Elena Kagan
You
Integrity
Legal
People
Opportunity
Honor
Long
Rich
Extraordinary
Solicitor
General
Only
Lifetime
Lead
Know
Also
Due
Tradition
Led
Office
Skill
Measure
Who
Large
Large Measure
Professionalism
Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.
Ellen Barkin
Work
Hope
Me
Human Being
Byrne
Extraordinary
Say
Kids
About
Through
Stuck
He
Always
Were
Friends
Very
Times
Same
Human
Being
Gabriel
Hard
Hard Times
Two
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