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Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.
Jemima Kirke
Me
Humble
Simple
Nothing
More
Make
Make Up
Up
Than
Sitting
Front
Interesting
Straightforward
Figure
Keeps
Right
There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.
Jen Kirkman
Life
Good
Heart
Surgeon
Pilot
Fly
Own
Window
No Interest
Ten
My Own
Fact
Excellent
Except
Open
Taking
Also
Make
Learn
How
Lot
Up
Behalf
Being
Want
Stories
Interest
Skating
Japan
Might
Figure
Figure Skating
Washing
Things
Competitive
Write down everything you feel about money - 'I love you;' 'I wish I had more of you;' 'I don't trust you;' - Then, look at the ones that aren't quite so pretty and figure out how you can shift them to be in a more positive, grateful space.
Jen Sincero
Positive
Love
You
Trust
Grateful
Money
Space
Wish
Down
Everything
Out
Pretty
About
More
Write
Had
Feel
Look
How
Shift
Quite
Love You
Them
Then
Figure
I'm not a public figure; I shouldn't have to be held to a certain standard of beauty.
Jenji Kohan
Beauty
Public
Public Figure
Held
Certain
Standard
Figure
I am a competitive figure skater. I've been doing that for the same amount of time I've been doing acting. Ever since I was two.
Jenna Boyd
Time
Since
Am
Doing
Been
Same
Skater
Acting
Figure
Ever
Amount
Competitive
Two
I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.
Jennette McCurdy
Love
Swimming
Other
Gym
Go
Than
Often
Just
Skating
Figure
Figure Skating
Swim
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.
Jennifer Aniston
Love
You
Yourself
Think
Once
Out
Kinda
About
Falls
What You Love
Place
Figure
Who
I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.
Jennifer Beals
Remember
Yesterday
Meeting
Out
Something
Had
Knew
Know
Very
Holiday
Confusing
Figure
Not to brag, but I do think I've gotten pretty adept on PowerPoint... except that I can't figure out how to use Excel!
Jennifer Egan
Think
Adept
Out
Pretty
Excel
Except
PowerPoint
How
Gotten
Brag
Use
Figure
When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.
Jennifer Egan
Time
Together
Writing
Unhappy
First
Out
Had
Like
Him
Because
Felt
How
Lot
Fit
Child
Trying
Going
Wanted
Really
Should
Hard
Figure
Hard Time
I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?
Jennifer Egan
Life
Way
Kind
Cartoon
About
Somehow
Through
Never
Feel
Like
Him
Felt
Traffic
Normal
Normal Life
Hits
Often
Childhood
Just
Figure
Who
Whole
Why
If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
Jennifer Lopez
Music
Me
Balance
Out
Feel
Dual
How
Celebrity
Frightened
Anyone
Figure
Film
Challenged
Careers
Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.
Jennifer Palmieri
Political
Own
Could
Never
Had
Observed
She
Interest
Figure
Many
Her
Right
Elizabeth
Instrumental music can be about anything. It's about a mood, and I usually title my instrumental songs long after they're written. Sometimes I figure out the titles when I'm doing the CD package, and that's very common for a lot of people who write instrumental music.
Jenny Scheinman
Music
People
Sometimes
Long
Mood
Out
About
Write
Songs
Written
Instrumental
Doing
Lot
Very
Common
After
Anything
Title
Package
Titles
Figure
Who
I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.
Jenny Zhang
Life
Dangerous
Real Life
Ungrateful
Drawn
More
Demand
Real
Often
Literature
Figure
Marvel heroes, at their core, are people who are damaged, are people that are trying to figure out who they are in life. And that doesn't matter whether or not they're X-Men characters or they're Matt Murdock or they're Tony Stark or they're Peter Parker... That's where it starts.
Jeph Loeb
Life
People
Matter
Heroes
Starts
Out
Characters
Marvel
Parker
Matt
Trying
Where
Whether
Figure
Who
Peter
Stark
Damaged
Core
Tony
There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.
Jeremy Stoppelman
Time
Game
People
Better
Reputation
Our
Out
Recommend
Constantly
Cat
Over
New
Ideas
Identify
Content
Around
How
Time People
Up
Get
Trying
Mouse
Probing
Where
Interesting
Figure
Team
Plays
I was pleasantly surprised with 'Salvage.' I went to Australia and New Zealand for the novel and met a lot of people who had experienced the earthquakes in Christchurch. They responded very strongly to the book because they had been through these natural disasters and were trying to figure out how to rebuild.
Jesmyn Ward
Natural
Book
People
Met
Natural Disasters
Rebuild
Pleasantly
Earthquakes
Out
Strongly
Through
Had
New
Disasters
Because
How
Were
Surprised
Been
Lot
Australia
Very
Salvage
Trying
Experienced
New Zealand
Figure
Who
Novel
Zealand
Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a piece of fiction.
Jesmyn Ward
Time
Important
Sit
Down
Every
Every Time
Faulkner
Wrestle
Write
Piece
Him
His
Legacy
Southern
Fiction
Literature
Really
Figure
Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.
Jess Walter
Day
You
Writing
World
Political
Debate
Journalist
Corners
One Day
About
Various
Throwing
Like
Political Debate
Ultimately
Reporting
Loved
Energies
Skating
Figure
Figure Skating
My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some passages from it just to figure out who these characters are, how they talk. And I have a dim sense of what it's about and where it's going to go, but I know that's going to change, too.
Jesse Andrews
Change
Creative
Destruction
Sense
Too
Dim
Out
Characters
Some
Pretty
About
Something
Write
Know
Talk
Messy
How
Passages
Go
Lot
Going
Just
Where
Process
Figure
Who
Set
I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.
Jesse Eisenberg
Good
Character
You
Director
Mind
Job
Made
Important
Reading
Think
Out
Good Movies
Know
Most
Most Important Thing
Well
Important Thing
Role
Trying
Any
The Most Important
Movie
Script
Movies
Figure
Actor
Play
Thing
Last
Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line.
Jesse Itzler
You
Finish Line
Everything
Way
Out
Finish
Push
Line
Just
Ends
Figure
In the late 1990s, I was a guest on a private plane. By the time my partners and I got off the flight, we knew we had to figure out how to fly privately more often.
Jesse Itzler
Time
Fly
Late
Guest
Out
More
Had
Knew
Partners
Got
How
Private
Off
Privately
Often
Plane
Figure
Flight
By The Time
Paul Scholes was the main figure for me growing up. His attitude, he's humble off the pitch - you didn't hear much about him - but on the pitch, he was loud, aggressive, liked to tackle, and I learned off him.
Jesse Lingard
Attitude
Me
You
Humble
Aggressive
About
Tackle
Main
He
Liked
Him
Learned
Hear
His
Off
Up
Loud
Pitch
Paul
Much
Figure
Growing
Growing Up
It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story.
Jessica Abel
Me
Took
Out
Structure
How
Years
Story
Figure
Many
Compelling
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