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When it comes to music, I am a dictator. Making a Dirty Projectors record come to life is like making a movie; I'm the one that makes the picture, and then we all figure out how to realise it.
David Longstreth
Life
Music
Picture
Out
Record
Dirty
Come
Like
Makes
How
Making
Am
Dictator
Movie
Realise
Then
Figure
I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.'
David Lowery
Saying
Made
Out
Something
Outline
Scenes
Had
Like
Still
Saints
Were
Lot
Shoot
Improvisation
Just
Happens
Script
Room
Them
Sentence
Bodies
Page
Figure
Nick
I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.
David O. Russell
Day
Class
Job
Films
Out
Jobs
Various
Had
Day Job
Make
Because
How
Making
Office
Get
Trying
Going
Short
Taught
Short Films
Frustrated
Figure
Sat
Bartender
If you're asked, you've got to serve - put aside any reservations based on campaign rhetoric... and figure out what's best for the country.
David Petraeus
Best
You
Country
Out
Put
Got
Campaign
Any
Rhetoric
Aside
Asked
Figure
Reservations
Based
Serve
You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.
Dawn Olivieri
Positive
Saying
Freedom
Character
Me
You
Confidence
Change
You Can Do It
Words
Will
Important
Everyone
Though
Out
Find
Points
Main
Outside
Nail
Box
Been
Affords
May
Little
Should
Figure
Who
Swing
Keep
Technique
I like to think of 'the studio' as a laboratory where I can go in, learn tricks, apply, revise, and release. I'd figure I had about the same emotional attachment to my craft as a guy over at NASA does over... NASA stuff.
Deadmau5
Think
Release
Tricks
About
Guy
Attachment
Emotional
Had
Studio
Stuff
Over
Like
Learn
Does
NASA
Go
Revise
Laboratory
Same
Craft
Where
Figure
Apply
Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.
Dean Kamen
Work
You
Sometimes
Thinking
Project
Projects
Out
Stuck
Another
Always
Go
Get
Just
Hobby
Where
Figure
Multiple
The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.
Debbie Gibson
Music
People
Situation
Bypass
Drama
Out
Would
Would-Be
Ideal
Get
Confident
Just
Mayhem
Figure
Eventually
Right
I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.
Debi Mazar
Me
Hide
Sometimes
Pants
Small
Feel
Like
Make
Accentuate
Waist
Legs
Little
Figure
Fuller
Hepburn
Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
Debi Thomas
Life
Made
My Life
First
National
Changed
Statement
Returned
Real
After
Skating
Title
Figure
Figure Skating
Ever
When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Julliard, and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.
Deborah Kara Unger
School
National
Dramatic
Out
High
High School
Had
Scholarships
Institute
Academic
Academy
Audition
Australia
Trying
Artistic
Graduated
Arts
Decided
Figure
Sydney
Royal
I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute.
Deborah Kara Unger
Thought
Parents
Trouble
National
Young
Down
Way
Out
Photographer
Tried
Follow
Had
Crush
Institute
Him
Without
Auditioning
Go
Huge
Australia
Canadian
Commissioned
Getting
Figure
Who
Series
Mark O'Toole from the FAI has looked after me well back in England to the point that I consider him a father figure.
Declan Rice
Me
Father
Father Figure
Mark
Consider
Back
Point
Looked
Well
Him
After
Figure
England
They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.
Demetri Martin
Freedom
You
Sense
Say
Out
Structure
Constraints
Dealing
Get
Figure
Multiple
They Say
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.
Denis Leary
Natural
Problems
Think
Everybody
Way
Kid
Pretty
Angle
More
Had
Part
Since
Identify
Identifying
Obviously
Always
Got
Yeah
Question
Up
Authority
Anybody
Grew
Plan
Much
Figure
Who
Ever
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
Denis Leary
Problems
Kid
Pretty
Had
Since
Identify
Obviously
Always
Authority
Much
Figure
Ever
President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.
Dennis Miller
People
President
Gave
President Bush
Address
Presidential
Out
Both
Reaction
However
Were
Mixed
His
Trying
Which
Spanish
Bush
Figure
English
Radio
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
Dennis Rodman
You
Class
School
College
Chemistry
Out
High
Plus
High School
Something
Take
Where
Figure
Two
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.
Derek Walcott
Woman
Liberty
Manly
Think
Heroic
Scale
Immensity
Statue
Statue Of Liberty
About
Something
Fact
Tender
Moving
Figure
Her
Soft
Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they're called tragedy because they're extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That's what the catharsis is.
Derek Walcott
Sad
Sometimes
Glorious
Extremely
Case
Catharsis
Call
Because
Always
Least
Tragedy
End
Histories
Person
Happen
Central
Theater
Really
Figure
Based
Thing
Things
Things Happen
I'm essentially a humorist and, I think, a pretty good one. I've known all along that 'My Friend Dahmer' is the one book I'll be most known for, and in a way, that's a drag, as it's nothing like the rest of the work I've done or will do moving forward. But the way I figure, it's better to have a best-known work than not to have one at all.
Derf
Work
Good
Moving Forward
Book
Better
Will
Rest
Nothing
Think
Humorist
Way
One Book
Pretty
Pretty Good
My Friend
Along
Like
Most
Known
Friend
Than
Done
Essentially
Moving
Figure
Forward
Drag
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?
Devdutt Pattanaik
Art
Me
You
Training
Down
Society
Say
Anatomy
Complex
Relevance
Out
Systems
More
Could
Physiology
Rituals
Mythology
Clear
Without
Does
How
Exist
Taught
Maze
Stories
Breaking
Them
Figure
Helped
Medical
Symbols
These first few years, it's more trying to figure it out. What's going on in the NBA? Where do I fit in? Then my second year, I'm a player. 'Can he actually start?' I played pretty well my second year. My third year, now I gotta solidify myself. Now I'm here, and it's about winning for me.
Devin Booker
Myself
Me
First
Year
Few
Out
Pretty
About
More
Winning
He
Well
Gotta
Years
Fit
Trying
Going
Where
Then
Figure
NBA
Now
Actually
Played
Start
Player
Second
Here
Third
I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone.
Devon Bostick
Mom
Me
Fight
Walls
Took
Guess
Saw
Telephone
Mad
Out
Running
Pretty
Nobody
Stuff
Longer
Him
Because
Always
Got
Lot
Did
Figure
Figured
Dad
Coordinator
Early
If you're going to write time travel stories, you have to sort of figure out how does time travel work in this particular universe that I'm dealing with.
Diana Gabaldon
Work
Time
You
Travel
Universe
Out
Write
Particular
Sort
Dealing
Does
How
Time Travel
Going
Stories
Figure
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
Diane Wakoski
Good
You
Poet
Myth
Reading
Consider
Those
Poetry
Previous
He
Part
Thus
Know
Answer
Doing
Cultural
American
Whether
Aspects
Figure
Aware
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