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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel
Documentary
Doing
Interested
Public
Public Figure
Figure
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
Irwin Shaw
Great
Great Deal
Writer
He
Toward
Obviously
Acceptable
Deal
Making
Ernest Hemingway
Sissy
Did
Public
Public Figure
Figure
Hemingway
I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
Isaac Mizrahi
Love
Would
Angelina Jolie
Mysterious
Talk
She
Because
Show
Figure
Her
Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.
Isabelle Fuhrman
Style
Christian
Out
Well
Still
Lots
Trying
Experimenting
Figure
Many
Including
Things
Designers
Shahid is a paternal figure to me. He's almost like a teacher. All my life, I've learned so much by watching him. I can't possibly consider him as competition to me. In fact, I would say, we're a team.
Ishaan Khatter
Life
Teacher
Me
Competition
My Life
Consider
Say
All My Life
Possibly
Would
Fact
He
Almost
Like
Him
Learned
Paternal
In Fact
Much
Figure
Team
Watching
Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.
Isla Fisher
Me
Compliments
Wearing
Anyone
Anytime
Spanx
Figure
If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.
Isobelle Carmody
Work
You
People
Try
Own
Live
Think
Out
Tell
Write
Writers
Animate
Look
Answer
How
Real
Questions
Any
Order
Them
Body
Figure
Deepest
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Issey Miyake
Life
Art
Great
Great Thing
Artists
Clothing
Happening
Body
Figure
Using
Now
Thing
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
Italo Calvino
Myself
Me
Others
Intolerable
More
More And More
Writer
Becoming
Author
Public
Public Figure
Figure
Consequently
I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
J. B. Smoove
You
World
Think
Once
Out
Kind
Easy
Audience
End
Up
Brand
Getting
Want
Across
Acting
Your
Figure
Standup
Bring
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
J. D. Vance
Myself
Army
Culture
Heroes
Doubt
White
Military
Neighbours
Could
Had
Name
Like
George
Officer
American
Modern
Loved
Patton
Figure
Working-Class
Even
I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.
J. K. Simmons
Character
Me
You
White
Think
Would
Would-Be
Find
Able
Guy
He
Part
Generic
Come
Like
Sort
Bald
Authority
Blue
Often
Disgruntled
Fortunate
Figure
Who
Fun
Actor
NYPD
Play
Playing
A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.
Jack Falahee
Heart
Mind
Three
Down
Out
Characters
Come
Most
Where
Break
Them
Figure
Utilize
Thing
Things
We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.
Jack Horner
You
Our
Ancestors
Those
Characteristics
Ancient
Out
Carry
Could
Genes
Come
How
Turn
Turned
Us
Used
Figure
Actually
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Jack Horner
Living
Biology
Out
Dinosaurs
Like
Were
Trying
Figure
Creatures
Living Creatures
People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
Jack White
People
Try
Old
Own
Same Thing
Nice
Enjoy
Way
Out
Trick
Would
Something
Having
Records
Come
Like
House
Make
Get
Same
Movie
Interested
Them
Used
Figure
Thing
Buying
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
Jackie DeShannon
Good
You
Impossible
Try
Think
Elvis
Way
Out
Tried
See
Records
Had
He
Performing
Like
Know
Him
Practically
Get
Just
Anyone
Fortune
Figure
Ever
Good Fortune
Set
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
Jacob Rothschild
Life
Art
Great
Man
Mother
Young
Gave
Collected
Admirer
Mary
Because
Friend
Being
Young Man
Grandmother
Grant
Figure
Works
Whom
Bell
Her
Every song is personal, but 'Ohio,' on my first EP, was on another level. I really opened up about the lack of relationship I had with my father. We stopped talking about four years ago, and I haven't had a father figure in my life since.
Jacob Whitesides
Life
Relationship
Song
Father
My Life
First
Every
Father Figure
About
Had
Opened
Since
Talking
Another
Years
Years Ago
Up
Personal
Lack
Stopped
Ohio
Really
Figure
Level
Four
I feel like a hit will come whenever it does, but I don't want to sit in a studio trying to figure out the magic formula and mixing spices and trying to come up with the perfect song.
Jacob Whitesides
Song
Will
Spices
Sit
Out
Magic
Perfect
Studio
Feel
Come
Like
Does
Mixing
Up
Hit
Trying
Whenever
Want
Formula
Figure
When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.
Jacob deGrom
You
Way
Out
Got
Mound
Get
Figure
I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier.
Jade Jagger
Needs
You
Style
Motherhood
Everything
Easier
Out
More
Absolutely
Generally
Learn
Makeup
Refined
Quicker
Gets
Done
Just
Your
Figure
Helps
Found
You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of some kind, you have to think as one. You have to figure out all the things that you've studied and that your mind is telling you, and then you have to figure out how to make it work as one, or you have a broken down team.
Jaimoe
Work
Broken
You
Mind
Down
Think
Out
Kind
Telling
Some
Studied
Contact
Come
Make
Another
How
Person
Want
Einstein
Then
Much
Your
Figure
Team
Unit
Things
I've always wanted to be an action figure.
Jake Lloyd
Action
Always
Wanted
Figure
Action Figure
You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you do is turn on the radio and try to figure out how to play popular songs.
Jake Shimabukuro
You
Try
Girl
Impress
Older
Meeting
Out
Songs
Know
Instrument
How
Get
Want
Happen
Them
Turn
Turn-On
Figure
Radio
Popular
Play
Start
A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.
Jake Tapper
News
ABC
About
Put
Stuff
Well
Read
Blog
Hear
Lot
Up
Curious
Reporting
Just
Anyway
Either
Interested
Might
Figure
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