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Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.
Jerry Hall
Family
Broken
You
Marriage
Think
Everyone
Hates
Horrible
Give
Divorce
Failed
Feel
Because
Always
Up
Getting
Your
Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft failed. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this happened, then this. Just putting those facts down on paper was really painful.
Jesmyn Ward
Me
Writing
Men
First
Down
Paper
Ways
Those
Broke
Out
Telling
Some
Facts
Failed
Putting
Because
Spots
Making
Getting
Just
Different
Happened
Process
Story
Then
Really
Hard
Painful
Different Ways
Draft
Drafting
One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.
Jesmyn Ward
Love
First
Too
Ways
Characters
Failed
Novel
I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.
Jill Scott
Looking
Think
Say
Married
About
Divorce
Failed
Learned
Get
Get Married
Where
Bar
Again
Engagement
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim DeMint
Hope
Freedom
Change
Enemy
World
Fear
Mind
Tyranny
Nothing
Hope And Change
More
Had
Failed
Towards
Over
Policies
Democrats
Been
Than
America
Centuries
Socialist
I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy and bring our troops home.
Jim McGovern
War
Time
Home
Thought
Wrong Time
Fighting
Our
Administration
Troops
Troops Home
Wrong
Failed
Policy
Been
Iraq
Get
Stop
Bring
I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.
Jim Parsons
Class
Age
College
Young
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Hurricanes
Through
Failed
Blew
Very
Young Age
Coast
Fascinated
Lived
We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.
Jim Pattison
Me
Never
Pick
Fail
Failed
Go
Up
Times
Just
Many
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.
Jim Sensenbrenner
Had
Failed
Since
Tax
Which
Cap
Europe
Even
Treaty
Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that.
Jitin Prasada
Election
First
Party
Bubble
He
Failed
Test
His
After
Elevation
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.
Joan Didion
Myself
Try
First
Other
Once
Would
Write
Failed
Freeze
Pieces
Reader
Always
Up
Than
While
Started
I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
Joan Didion
Way
Seemed
Never
Had
Failed
Child
Being
Flat
Interest
Much
Engage
That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.
Joe Bonamassa
Music
Listening
Black
College
Parents
White
Keys
Way
Kid
Kids
College Kids
Failed
New
Hip
Jack
New Way
Just
Blues
Where
While
Succeeded
Convinced
Actually
Twisted
Playing
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.
John Bolton
Blame
Natural
People
Natural Disasters
Kim
Failed
Failed Policies
Disasters
Policies
Korean
North
North Korean
Deprivation
Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.
John Boyne
Christmas
Me
Every
Teenage
Teenage Years
Carol
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Charles
Charles Dickens
Enthusiast
Throughout
Never
Excite
Failed
Well
Read
Always
Years
Dickens
December
Being
Stories
Loved
Story
I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.
John Cho
Good
Improvise
Failed
Comedic
Been
Lot
Which
Asked
Really
Actor
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.
John Desmond Bernal
Giving
Satisfied
Too
License
Failed
Primitive
Wishes
Because
Greatest
Infantile
Themselves
Full
Naturalism
Even
Play
Inconsistent
In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.
John Eaton
Music
Experience
Words
Think
Other
Kind
Somehow
Something
Point
Failed
Missed
Audience
How
Listens
Being
In Other Words
Tune
Whole
I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'
John Krasinski
God
Remember
Pilot
Someone
Had
Remember When
Failed
Over
Like
Does
How
End
Survive
Done
Oh
Oh My God
Career
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
John Malkovich
Me
Father
Whatever
More
He
Wrong
Failed
Comfortable
Felt
Up
Than
Whenever
Measure
Standard
Dad
Set
Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.
John Mica
Will
First
Half
Year
President
Meet
Finally
Approved
Has-Been
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Administrator
John
Failed
New
Operating
Without
Been
Years
Friday
Expectations
Eight
After
Unfortunately
Fifth
Choices
Two
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
John Ortberg
Life
Day
Great
Will
Alexander
Immense
Outlast
Someone
Caesar
Failed
Clearly
Napoleon
Were
His
End
Normally
Legacy
Die
Died
Tiny
Movement
Reputations
Muhammad
Apparent
Appeared
Jesus
Socrates
I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.
John Otway
Failed
Huge
Huge Star
Wanted
Star
The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.
Jon Corzine
Flu
Year
President
Once
Adequate
Ensure
Administration
No Excuse
Risk
Simply
Supply
Failed
Excuse
Because
Without
American
Going
Again
Us
Act
Vaccine
Millions
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
Jon Meacham
News
Gun
Failed
Terrible
Enact
Wonder
America
Shooting
Legislation
Whenever
Even
Why
In any international sporting career an opportunity comes along that you have to grab. Mine came at Old Trafford in 1985 when I was recalled to the England team to face Australia. It was a huge chance to prove I belonged in the Test side but I failed to take it.
Jonathan Agnew
You
Opportunity
Old
Face
Side
Mine
Take
Failed
Along
Prove
Test
Came
Huge
Australia
Grab
Any
Team
England
International
Recalled
Belonged
Career
Chance
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