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Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger Bannister
Life
Simple
Luxury
Rugged
Parents
Expectation
Had
Part
Bleak
Come
Fairly
Very
North
Which
England
Hard-Working
I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer.
Roger Deakins
Art
College
Way
Photographer
Suppose
Fairly
Always
Came
Traditional
Traditional Way
Art College
Up
Wanted
Younger
Worked
Really
We've been fairly eclectic in our time, and we did branch out. Whenever we got a little bit too far out, people started to moan and groan a bit.
Roger Taylor
Time
People
Too
Our
Bit
Our Time
Out
Eclectic
Fairly
Got
Been
Moan
Branch
Did
Whenever
Little
Little Bit
Far
Started
In life, we mostly manage to walk around interacting with each other fairly politely. But as soon as we get into our cars, we morph into something out of 'Mad Max'.
Romesh Ranganathan
Life
Walk
Car
Other
Our
Mad
Out
Something
Soon
Fairly
Mostly
Around
Politely
Get
Manage
Max
Interacting
Each
A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy.
Ronald Frame
Life
Me
Happy
People
Suits
Think
Imagination
Other
Enough
Kind
Fine
Rather
Writer
Feel
Well
Fairly
Because
Dull
Might
Keep
Actually
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
Roy Lichtenstein
Before
Painting
Paper
Collage
Drawing
Would
Something
Put
Fairly
Sure
Printed
Committed
Wanted
Dots
Then
Worked
Really
Certain
Certain Things
Painted
Things
I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
Rufus Wainwright
Myself
Age
Young
Think
Everybody
Tempered
Pretty
Entranced
Had
Identified
Fairly
Young Age
It's fairly common for new members of Congress to hire their former campaign managers onto their official staff.
Saikat Chakrabarti
Congress
Members
Onto
New
Fairly
Hire
Campaign
Official
Managers
Common
Staff
Former
I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.
Sally Rooney
Negative
Think
Characteristics
Characters
Fairly
Decent
Even
Fundamentally
I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
Samuel R. Delany
Attitude
Character
World
Pressure
Picture
About
Something
More
Towards
Fairly
Read
Doing
Lot
Than
Quiet
Where
Want
Which
Interested
Who
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
Sarah Brightman
You
Selfish
Gift
Too
Way
Outside
Fairly
Afford
Get
Cannot
Many
Things
If you find a series of linear shapes in the same alignment as known archaeological features, and they match excavated examples, you still need to excavate to confirm, but you can be fairly sure that the imagery is accurate.
Sarah Parcak
You
Alignment
Find
Archaeological
Examples
Features
Shapes
Fairly
Known
Sure
Match
Still
Linear
Accurate
Same
Confirm
Series
Imagery
Need
I studied voice and piano fairly seriously during my elementary and high school days, and as such, I became very attuned to rhythm and cadence and voice.
Sarah Weinman
School Days
School
Seriously
High
High School
Voice
Piano
Studied
Days
Fairly
Became
Attuned
Very
Rhythm
Elementary
I'm fairly sort of a laid-back and optimistic guy full of effervescence and vitality.
Saroo Brierley
Vitality
Guy
Fairly
Sort
Optimistic
Full
One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.
Scott Adams
Good
You
Together
Strategy
World-Class
Incredibly
Out
Case
Layered
Combination
Particular
Until
Fairly
Became
Getting
Being
Average
Skill
Skills
Stand
Special
Need
It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself.
Scott Baio
Work
Good
You
Yourself
People
Good People
Some
Risky
Goof
Fairly
Because
Always
How
Gotta
Werewolf
Movie
Watch
Playing
Chance
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
Scott Cook
Finance
Financial
Simple
Thirty
Most
Fairly
Were
Years
Years Ago
Decisions
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
Scott McCloud
Me
Hood
Something
Fairly
Territory
How
Familiar
Familiar Territory
Getting
Explaining
Notion
Works
Back in the day with Ronnie Coleman, there's a fairly famous photo with me doing the bicep pose with him. I also did a pose with Arnold at the Arnold Classic one year in Columbus, Ohio.
Scott Steiner
Day
Me
Year
Coleman
Back
Photo
Classic
Columbus
Also
Fairly
Him
Arnold
Doing
Did
Ohio
Famous
Ronnie
Pose
The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly common. Emetophobia, it's called, and by some estimates, it's the fifth most common specific phobia.
Scott Stossel
Me
Fear
Fears
Phobia
Some
Most
Fairly
Common
Estimates
Which
Fifth
Original
Specific
Actually
Acute
My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there.
Sebastian Roche
Life
Christmas
Nice
Too
Summers
Spent
Paris
Environment
Also
Fairly
Comfortable
Because
Idyllic
Very
Suburbs
Grandparents
Dad
Lived
Nearly
Raised
Britain
Lamentably, alien audiences may be frustrated by the switch to digital television. That's because the transmitter power for DTV is fairly evenly spread across the spectrum. The spikiness is gone, and from afar, the attention-grabbing squeals of analog television's carriers have been replaced by DTV's smooth, low hiss.
Seth Shostak
Digital
Alien
Power
Gone
Analog
Television
Fairly
Because
Smooth
Audiences
Spread
Afar
Been
Replaced
May
Frustrated
Low
Across
Switch
Spectrum
People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Sharron Angle
People
Words
Conservative
Too
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Relative
Benjamin Franklin
Those
Franklin
About
Fairly
Sure
Said
Always
George
George Washington
Jefferson
Washington
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
Shawn Colvin
Life
Long
Tough
Healthy
Pleasure
Out
Stay
Point
Point Of View
Fairly
Lot
Very
Pitiful
Dismal
Really
View
Hard
Derive
Cynic
Cynicism
Things
I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.
Shirley Manson
Life
Control
Think
Meet
Someone
General
Hot
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Like
Particularly
Obviously
Fairly
Him
Course
Want
Mean
Use
Who
Flirt
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Truth
Only
Myths
Tales
Fairly
Because
Grain
Them
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