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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
Nate Powell
Work
Politics
Justice
Political
Punk
Power
Sense
Late
Address
Though
Adolescence
Properly
Scene
Shaped
Had
Come
Until
Involvement
Underground
Felt
Rock
Equipped
Comics
Issues
Political Issues
Lots
Race
Social
Forth
Certain
Deeply
Violence
I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.
Nate Ruess
Music
Theatre
People
Sense
Live
Everybody
Our
Destroyed
Rap
Bad
About
Something
Had
Feel
Like
Reach
Massive
Became
Felt
Metal
Rock
Audiences
Rock Bands
Rock Music
End
Bands
Being
Wanting
Apologise
Show
Avoid
Suddenly
I didn't sleep the night I finished 'Sister Hills.' It was so unsettling. I felt really wild. I didn't have a clue. It's a very loaded subject, and I did not know what I had. I was interested in watching how choices unfold over time. It's a story that's raising questions.
Nathan Englander
Time
Finished
Sister
Wild
Had
Unsettling
Over
Know
Hills
Felt
How
Subject
Questions
Very
Did
Unfold
Story
Interested
Clue
Really
Choices
Watching
Loaded
Night
Raising
Sleep
I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.
Nathan Fielder
Myself
Creativity
People
Money
Other
Kind
Online
Like
Felt
Trade
Making
Making Money
Doing
Off
Stocks
Anything
Creating
Used
Gross
In 2007, I was living in San Francisco. I came out of business school, and I was very keen on doing something with a small company. I felt that the market, in general, in mobile phones was just going to explode.
Naveen Tewari
Business
Phones
School
Living
Market
Francisco
Out
Something
General
Small
Felt
Doing
Came
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Very
Going
Just
San
San Francisco
Explode
Business School
Company
Keen
For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.
Ndamukong Suh
Relationship
First
Whatever
Down
Kind
Never
Head
Know
Talk
Comfortable
Because
Felt
Real
Were
His
Close
Office
Sitting
Maybe
Just
Rookie
Really
Coach
Reason
Popping
Why
I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them.
Neal Adams
Good
You
Pay
Pay Attention
Attention
Felt
Always
Covers
Effect
Very
Story
Them
Bring
I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.
Neal Shusterman
Thought
Took
Would
Trilogy
Rushing
Divide
Could
Come
Like
Calling
Although
Became
Around
Felt
Conclusion
Editor
Again
Then
Asked
If I Could
Pages
Sequel
Even
Publisher
There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.
Neil Abercrombie
Grateful
Queen
Opportunity
Try
Live
Once
Out
Hawaii
Felt
Affected
Fit
Overthrown
Here
Profoundly
Set
I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.
Neil Patrick Harris
Thought
Think
Say
Thought Process
Tricky
Shakespeare
Deliver
Writes
Instead
Because
Within
Felt
Lines
Text
Green
Just
Process
Little
Then
We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.
Neil Sheehan
Truth
War
Win
Country
Those
Moral
Would
See
General
Outrage
Over
Felt
Advisor
Ambassador
Denying
Did
Reporting
Just
Just As Much
Wanted
Much
Help
Who
Kept
Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.
Nell Scovell
Funny
Me
People
Thought
Long
Think
Once
Top
Harry
Insecure
Scar
Potter
Week
Like
Protected
Wrote
Make
Felt
Praise
His
Version
List
After
Decided
Who
Even
Garry
Early
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.
Nellie Bly
Myself
Crazy
Girl
Duty
Took
Follow
Results
Disagreeable
Part
Felt
Enact
Shirk
Any
Unfortunate
Poor
Should
At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
Nelson Mandela
Struggle
Experience
South Africa
Whatever
Own
Background
Say
My Own
Outset
Outsider
Because
Felt
Said
Proudly
Foreigners
South
Did
Any
Done
Africa
African
Influence
Want
Might
Communists
Wholly
Suggestion
Incorrect
I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.
Neneh Cherry
Love
Morning
Relationship
You
Heart
Song
Responsibility
Recording
Singing
Sense
Think
Unless
Sun
Someone
Something
Studio
Almost
Mosque
Felt
Coming
Cover
Were
Hear
Up
Just
Golden
Might
I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and places. The class thing is very dominant there, but in the cultural cross-fertilization, I felt a sense of belonging.
Neneh Cherry
Class
Own
Sense
Live
Backgrounds
Tribe
London
My Own
Felt
Making
Were
Cultural
Dominant
Very
Moved
Where
Different
Different Backgrounds
Place
Places
Who
Chose
Found
Thing
Belonging
When I arrived at Barcelona and saw Messi's face, and later Luis Suarez, I felt like it was a videogame.
Neymar
Face
Later
Saw
Like
Messi
Felt
Arrived
Barcelona
I acquired quite a lot of technical skill and got quite a long way with my painting, but I never felt I was doing what New Zealand was about with my paint.
Ngaio Marsh
Long
Painting
Way
About
Never
Long Way
New
Felt
Got
Doing
Lot
Quite
Quite A Lot
New Zealand
Acquired
Skill
Paint
Zealand
Technical
I'm inspired to post a lot of positive messages on my social media because, growing up, I felt as though I needed somebody that looked like me in the limelight or in entertainment to promote being different and promote accepting your differences.
Nia Jax
Positive
Me
Entertainment
Post
Social Media
Somebody
Differences
Though
Promote
Inspired
Like
Looked
Messages
Because
Limelight
Felt
Accepting
Lot
Up
Being
Different
Being Different
Social
Your
Growing
Media
Growing Up
Needed
I never looked in the mirror and felt beautiful.
Nia Jax
Beautiful
Mirror
Never
Looked
Felt
It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.
Nia Vardalos
Sad
Mom
Me
Long
Become
Embarrassed
Long Process
Felt
Child
Process
Biological
On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.
Nia Vardalos
Life
Big
Real Life
Hook
John
Someone
Wedding
Writer
Tour
Over
Fair
Looks
Felt
Real
Up
Greek
Depiction
Again
Average
Asked
Publicity
Fat
Below
There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.
Nicholas Kristof
Time
Living
Other
Some
More
Emotionally
Like
Felt
Issues
Square
Where
China
Worked
Connected
Lived
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
Nicholson Baker
You
Living
Worry
About
No-One
Sort
Felt
Room
Your
Chair
Living Room
Peculiar
With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.
Nick Cave
Song
Writing
Fall
Back
Bottom
Feel
Like
Ideas
Felt
Always
Scraping
Barrel
Ever
Right
Start
I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.
Nick Cave
Musician
Like
Felt
Always
Whole
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