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When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.
Gordon Ramsay
You
Father
Big
Father Figure
Immediately
Find
Guy
Onto
Powerful
Him
Figure
Who
Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.
Gore Vidal
Reality
World
Unlike
Pleasures
Tell
Only
Adult
Powerful
Conceive
Most
Dull
Wonders
Children
Stories
Which
Themselves
Figure
Figures
Enjoying
They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.
Grace Jones
Me
Eyes
Fly
Black
Girl
White
Skin
Stars
Sun
Out
Must
Tried
Lights
Like
Looked
Call
Always
Were
Years
Being
Jamaica
After
Little
Little Girl
Really
Used
Figure
Why
As a public figure, you have to maintain a certain demeanor. We also have responsibility to the public, but of course, I'm not perfect. I have a lot of flaws; my husband can tell you that, my friends, even. They know who I am.
Grace Poe
You
Not Perfect
Responsibility
Husband
Tell
Perfect
Maintain
Demeanor
Know
Also
Course
Am
Lot
Friends
Public
Flaws
Public Figure
Certain
Figure
Who
Even
I think you need to figure out your balance. 'Cause if you think too much about that there's people around and - and how you're singing and looking and performing, I think that it won't be a good performance. Then, on the other hand, you can't just be in your own world.
Grace VanderWaal
Good
You
Balance
People
World
Cause
Too Much
Looking
Singing
Own
Just Be
Think
Too
Other
Out
About
Performance
Performing
Around
How
Hand
Just
Then
Much
Your
Figure
Need
I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to.
Graham Moore
Incredibly
Teenagers
Nerdy
Lifelong
Had
Obsessive
Look
Without
Always
Been
Lot
Up
Friends
Figure
Among
Alan
I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played.
Grandmaster Flash
Music
Together
Listening
Parents
Before
Older
Living
Back
Teens
Spent
Kid
Out
Bronx
Nerdy
Taking
Putting
Most
How
Items
Quiet
Sisters
Apart
Room
Them
Worked
Electrical
Figure
Four
Played
The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger's move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person.
Greg Grandin
Key
Richard Nixon
Enormous
Increasingly
President
East
Nixon
More
Only
Kissinger
Dealt
Iran
Than
Person
Sitting
Move
Expensive
Middle
Oil
Wanted
Middle East
Flattered
Richard
Figure
Serious
Reserve
Henry
Early
Hillary Clinton's progress as a public figure and politician can, in fact, be indexed perfectly by her relationship to Henry Kissinger.
Greg Grandin
Relationship
Progress
Politician
Kissinger
Fact
Perfectly
Hillary
Clinton
In Fact
Public
Public Figure
Figure
Henry
Her
Most students of Kissinger find it hard to say anything about Kissinger that isn't about the man himself. He is such an outsize figure that he eclipses his own context, leading his many biographers, critics, and admirers to focus nearly exclusively on the quirks of his personality or his moral failings.
Greg Grandin
Man
Personality
Focus
Own
Say
Moral
Find
Critics
Admirers
About
Kissinger
Students
He
Leading
Failings
Most
Himself
Context
His
Anything
Hard
Figure
Many
Nearly
Ariel Pink would be a regular on the Mike Douglas Show. Both a master songwriter and a charismatic figure, he'd wander the set like a cherubic, more likable Jim Morrison. His songs would be all over KFRC - the way Boz Scaggs ruled for one summer with 'Silk Degrees.'
Greg Gutfeld
Master
Jim
Summer
Way
Ruled
Would
Would-Be
Charismatic
Degrees
Silk
More
Both
Songs
Songwriter
He
Over
Likable
Like
His
Pink
Wander
Mike
Regular
Show
Douglas
Figure
Set
We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out.
Greg Rucka
Life
Time
You
Remember
Long
Long Time
Difficult
Out
Easy
Long Time Ago
Stuff
How
Up
Forget
Trying
Hard
Figure
Grown
Grown-Up
I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.
Greta Gerwig
You
Job
Important
Before
Think
Ways
Out
Characters
Telling
Some
Write
Talking
Doing
End
Up
Listen
Want
Decide
Story
Them
Much
Really
Your
Figure
Core
Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.
Gretchen Bleiler
Getting Older
Goals
Older
Out
Married
Inspirations
Had
New
House
Becoming
Were
Motivations
Person
Getting
Getting Married
Different
Different Person
Figure
Buying
I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.
Gretchen Parlato
Me
People
Some People
Trouble
Our
Out
Embrace
Some
About
Given
Voices
Sing
Loud
Very
Which
Figure
The No. 1 thing I hear from people when I meet them in the airport is, 'Oh my gosh, you're just like you are on TV.' Well, I'm not an actor. I don't think anyone could figure out how to be this weird.
Guy Fieri
You
People
Think
Meet
Airport
Out
TV
Could
Weird
Like
Well
Gosh
How
Hear
Oh
Just
Anyone
Them
Figure
Actor
Thing
I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.
Guy Pearce
Director
Confused
Mother
Father
Father Figure
Project
Tend
Onto
Female
Any
Working
Figure
The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election?
H. W. Brands
People
World
Election
Country
President
Presidential
States
Those
Potentially
Could
Writes
Feel
Like
How
Off
Person
Candidate
Stake
Then
Unifying
Figure
Who
Basically
Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story, and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things. And it took me a while to figure out how he achieved that effect, and one of the ways was to write it in the present tense.
H. W. Brands
Me
History
Revolution
Thomas
Took
Way
Ways
Though
Out
Some
Seemed
Write
He
Taken
Tense
French
Read
French Revolution
How
Years
Years Ago
Effect
Very
Achieved
Middle
Story
While
Figure
Right
Things
Present
Present Tense
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
Hallie Ephron
Man
Woman
Women
Words
Dark
Light
Walks
Says
She
Blue
Eight
Room
Notices
Figure
Million
A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
Halsey
Music
Angry
Guitar
Achieve
Out
Futuristic
Guitars
Record
Having
Sorrowful
Because
Without
How
Making
Era
Very
Vibe
Human
Wanted
Really
Use
Hard
Figure
Hard Thing
Actually
Thing
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
Hamish Linklater
Home
Out
Outdoor
Shakespeare
Feels
Like
Always
How
Up
Get
Trying
Grew
Place
Theater
Figure
One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
Hank Haney
You
Way
Out
High
One Of The Things
Idea
Make
Lot
Achievers
Realize
Figure
Things
We want to create a problem for the defense, a moment of indecision as they figure out how they want to play against whatever formation we may show. We get a slight edge this way. Also, we create the opportunity for a defense to make more mistakes.
Hank Stram
Problem
Opportunity
Edge
Mistakes
Whatever
Defense
Indecision
Way
Slight
Out
More
Also
Make
How
Get
May
Want
Formation
Against
Create
Show
Figure
Moment
Play
I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
Hanneli Mustaparta
Emailed
Out
Photographers
Online
Had
Knew
Self-Taught
Questions
Manual
Figure
Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
Harold Ramis
People
Everybody
Out
He
Just
Story
Bill
Bill Murray
Figure
Reasons
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