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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell
Life
Balance
Suffering
People
Young
Otherwise
Out
Only
Foolish
Fair
Fair Amount
Most
Very
Get
Fun
Lives
Amount
Imagine
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.
Kay Redfield Jamison
Depression
Suffering
Anxiety
Whatever
Sense
Think
Bipolar
Severe
One Thing
Mental
Mental Illness
Had
Fair
Fair Amount
Contend
Deal
Personal
Anybody
Whether
Illness
Actually
Thing
Amount
Resilience
Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
Zadie Smith
Time
Good
You
Good Time
Some
Self-Control
Fair
Fair Amount
Know
Because
Your
Amount
I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.
Alex Honnold
Food
People
Shopping
Think
Nutrition
Minimize
Impact
About
Something
Fair
Fair Amount
Most
Make
Than
Trying
Taste
Which
Choices
Reasons
Amount
Necessarily
With the combination of spending a fair amount of time on planes, having twins that go to elementary school, and generally living a lifestyle that is pretty high-stress, I have been known to run myself down quite easily, so I am pretty much a petri dish for germs, colds, and flus.
Amanda de Cadenet
Time
Myself
School
Down
Living
Spending
Easily
Run
Pretty
Having
Lifestyle
Generally
Combination
Fair
Fair Amount
Known
Am
Go
Been
Quite
Dish
Planes
Much
Elementary
Elementary School
Amount
Twins
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
Bill Joy
Become
Think
Tools
About
Takes
Fair
Fair Amount
Effort
Hard
Hard Thing
Proficient
Thing
Amount
Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
Bill Kristol
Work
World
Conservative
Conservatives
Insofar
Fair
Fair Amount
Policies
Said
Proud
Real
Years
Any
The Real World
Real World
Worked
Whole
Amount
Set
I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.
Bob Balaban
Saying
You
People
Better
New Things
Television
Television Series
Directed
New
Fair
Fair Amount
Learn
Always
Up
Get
Trying
Just
Episode
Should
Series
Amount
Things
Shut
Shut Up
Watch
Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That was inspiring,' you can't really ask for more than that.
Chadwick Boseman
You
Hate
Other
Says
More
Inspiring
Fair
Fair Amount
Another
Than
Did
Ask
Really
Your
Each
Actor
Thing
Amount
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
Chelsea Cain
Love
Great
Architecture
Ruins
Markets
Visited
Cities
Some
Beach
Castles
Tropical
Tours
Fair
Fair Amount
Am
Central
Bus
Sucker
Even
Traveled
Amount
Museums
I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'
Dennis Haysbert
Me
You
Believe
Our
Nutshell
Classes
Guys
Shakespeare
Football
Term
Fair
Fair Amount
Looks
Got
Versions
Did
Theater
Little
Interfered
Team
English
Season
Play
Play Football
Amount
Played
Basketball
Plays
You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.
Eric Ries
Wisdom
You
Perseverance
People
Key
Vision
Other
Folk
See
Seeing
About
Entrepreneurship
Fair
Fair Amount
Know
Talk
Redeem
Always
How
Really
Actually
Amount
I'm kind of a grandma, so I like cooking for my boyfriend and watching a movie. I cook a lot, actually. I'll make bacon-wrapped asparagus, steak, and pesto pasta with chicken...but we go out to dinner a fair amount, too.
Gigi Hadid
Cooking
Dinner
Too
Out
Kind
Steak
Fair
Fair Amount
Like
Make
Boyfriend
Go
Lot
Pasta
Movie
Grandma
Asparagus
Cook
Actually
Amount
Watching
Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun.
Ivanka Trump
Home
Chaos
Having
Part
Fair
Fair Amount
Always
Toddlers
Means
Fun
Amount
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Myself
Will
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Way
Characters
Write
Pick
Pick And Choose
Put
Fair
Fair Amount
Like
Person
Them
Then
Choose
Who
Amount
There is a terrorist threat to this country that remains, and I believe that counter-terrorism needs to be the cornerstone of our mission, our vast mission... and aviation security is something that we still have a fair amount of concerns about.
Jeh Johnson
Needs
Country
Believe
Cornerstone
Our
Security
Threat
About
Something
Vast
Remains
Fair
Fair Amount
Mission
Concerns
Terrorist
Still
Aviation
Amount
I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.
Jo Brand
Good
Key
Think
Humour
Someone
Puts
Fair
Fair Amount
Attributes
Articulate
Speaker
Amount
I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.
Joan Allen
Myself
Women
People
Think
Once
See
Feel
Fair
Fair Amount
Like
Sort
Am
However
Up
Representing
Separate
Amount
Interpret
I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.
John Schneider
Work
Time
Good
Husband
Bit
Takes
Fair
Fair Amount
Up
Quite
Quite A Bit
Dad
Amount
As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.
Joseph Monninger
Community
Would
Would-Be
Stay
Someone
Fair
Fair Amount
Like
Around
Wondered
Moved
Place
Rooted
Who
Amount
Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.
Katha Pollitt
Rights
Women
Abortion
Will
Three
Sit
Out
At Least One
Statistics
Menopause
Percent
Had
Since
Fair
Fair Amount
Make
Audience
Always
Mothers
Least
Came
Up
Pro
Done
Public
Speaking
Who
Public Speaking
Nearly
Amount
Two
I spend a fair amount of time chatting to black cab drivers in London.
Katie Hopkins
Time
Black
Spend
London
Cab
Chatting
Drivers
Fair
Fair Amount
Amount
I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the action takes place in Chance's head.
Kem Nunn
Me
Book
Writing
Action
Books
Atmosphere
Written
Head
Takes
Fair
Particular
Fair Amount
Most
Well
Always
Occurred
Lot
Place
While
Much
Landscape
Internal
Ever
Amount
External
Chance
I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.
Kristen Wiig
Life
School
Trouble
Out
About
More
Studying
Fair
Fair Amount
Got
Than
Hanging
Skipping
Lived
Amount
Cared
My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.
Lauren Bowles
Work
Great
Together
World
Husband
Ghost
Great Fun
Mars
Both
Had
Fair
Fair Amount
Couple
Always
Were
Veronica
Oddly
Years
Bunch
Times
Did
Just
Theater
Work Together
Worked
Episode
Fun
Company
Amount
I spent a fair amount of time in Communist Poland when I was young - my wife was from there - and I had the impression that boredom was one of the things that was undermining that whole society from the inside.
Lawrence Osborne
Time
Wife
Young
Society
Spent
One Of The Things
Boredom
Inside
Had
Poland
Fair
Fair Amount
Undermining
Impression
Communist
Whole
Amount
Things
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