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With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you learn. You can't be real precious. When you're doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It's a different animal.
Alex Kurtzman
Time
You
Animal
Quality
Writing
First
Lesson
Incredibly
Months
High
Be Real
Feature
Feature Film
Take
Learn
Sort
Real
Doing
Precious
Different
Different Animal
Your
Series
Film
Fast
Keeping
You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.
Alex Morrison
You
You Can Do It
Mind
First
Before
Must
See
Clearly
Your
Thing
However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.
Alex Morrison
Great
Will
First
Advice
Military
Think
Sierra
Way
Sierra Leone
Those
Security
Security Council
Council
First Of All
Forces
Course
However
Provide
Governments
Any
Going
Influence
Happening
Asked
Congo
Organized
Who
Professional
Second
Throughout your career, you will always be asked to play slightly different positions here and there, and obviously, the needs of the team come first, so if you need to fill in at a different position, you'll be expected to do that.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Needs
You
Will
First
Positions
Slightly
Throughout
Come
Obviously
Always
Expected
Different
Asked
Your
Team
Fill
Play
Here
Career
Need
Position
I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'
Alex Pettyfer
Remember
First
Reading
About
Guy
House
Make
Got
Go
Movie
Wants
Scripts
Who
Ever
When I was in the GB Women's football team at the 2012 Olympics, it was obvious who was in the first XI and who was making up the numbers. Kelly Smith was going to be first-choice striker no matter what, and the other forwards in the squad mentally checked out as a result.
Alex Scott
Women
Result
Matter
First
Other
Out
Mentally
Football
Football Team
Checked
Obvious
Smith
Making
Making Up
Squad
Up
Going
Team
Who
Forwards
Kelly
Numbers
Olympics
During the 2012 Olympics, I decided to put on some cheesy pop because I knew Ellen White liked it. The first song was 'Reach for the Stars' by S Club 7, and before I knew it, everyone was singing it - suddenly it was our song.
Alex Scott
Song
First
Singing
Before
Club
White
Stars
Ellen
Everyone
Our
Some
Put
Knew
Reach
Liked
Reach For The Stars
Because
Cheesy
Decided
Pop
Suddenly
Olympics
I remember when I first got into the England side, going to meet ups where you were just doing a job, you were almost looking to go back to your clubs as soon as you arrived. That changed. The Lionesses got the feel of a club; it was a place you wanted to be, a set-up you couldn't wait to join.
Alex Scott
You
Remember
Wait
Job
First
Looking
Club
Changed
Side
Meet
Back
Join
Remember When
Almost
Feel
Soon
Got
Doing
Go
Arrived
Were
Going
Just
Ups
Where
Wanted
Place
Clubs
Your
England
I was an attacking full-back but was told by Hope Powell to just sit back when we played U.S.A. in the 2007 World Cup. It's hard to rein yourself in, but the team comes first.
Alex Scott
Hope
Yourself
World
First
Sit
Back
Attacking
Cup
Just
Hard
Team
World Cup
Rein
Played
The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.
Alex Scott
You
World
Pressure
First
Focused
Take
First One
First World
Go
Lot
Cup
Trying
Just
Your
World Cup
'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global warming. But this is because he is a city boy.
Alex Shoumatoff
You
Mind
First
Believe
Think
City
Ecological
He
Global
Global Warming
First Thing
Because
Boy
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
The First Thing
Sensitivity
Warming
Even
Thing
I think that's the great thing about the NFL. You're out there, and there are very few perennials. It's a battle every single year. You can go first to worst, worst to first.
Alex Smith
Great
You
Battle
First
Single
Year
Few
Every
Think
Worst
Out
About
Great Thing
Go
Very
Thing
It's fun to come in when it's first down. It's not fun to come back in when it's third-and-long.
Alex Smith
First
Down
Back
Come
Fun
As a quarterback, when you do have a three-and-out or things do not go right, you are the first one to know. You know more than anyone out there what went wrong and what needs to be corrected and don't necessarily always need to hear it when you come off to the sideline.
Alex Smith
Needs
You
First
Sideline
Corrected
Out
More
Wrong
Come
Know
First One
Always
Quarterback
Go
Hear
Off
Than
Anyone
Right
Things
Necessarily
Need
It is healthy to have competition and intense competition, and then, when you walk away from it, you are still teammates, and you play the same position and that we can still put the team first.
Alex Smith
You
Competition
Walk
First
Healthy
Teammates
Put
Still
Intense
Same
Then
Team
Away
Play
Position
No one's taking quarterbacks, for the most part, in the first round that haven't had a lot of success.
Alex Smith
Success
First
Had
Part
Taking
Most
Quarterback
Lot
Round
At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses, and on paper, I kind of succeeded: I was the first pick in the draft. And with that, I inherited this big shiny trophy that I carried around, and it had one word engraved on it - anxiety.
Alex Smith
Anxiety
Word
First
Big
Paper
Carried
Kind
Weaknesses
Promote
Tried
One Word
Perfect
Trophy
Had
Pick
Conceal
Combine
Around
Shiny
Succeeded
Inherited
Workouts
Engraved
Player
Draft
Strengths
When the Internet really first started to hit, people felt this would be the death blow: after suburbs and long commutes and television and the death of the family dinner, this would be the last straw that would totally break society.
Alex Steffen
Death
Family
People
Internet
Dinner
Long
First
Society
Television
Would
Would-Be
Totally
Felt
Hit
Blow
After
Break
Suburbs
Really
Straw
Started
Last
I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place than I did in the U.S. I discovered I was more American than Filipino. It was shattering because I never felt quite at home in the U.S., either.
Alex Tizon
Home
Philippines
Thought
First
Visited
Out
Would
More
Never
Feel
Shattering
Because
Felt
Discovered
Than
American
Did
Quite
Either
Place
Filipino
The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.
Alex Turner
Time
Thought
Be Nice
First
Half
Nice
Live
Would
Would-Be
London
Given
Exciting
New
First Time
York
Same
New York
Really
Chance
There's nothing appealing about the Elimination Chamber. When I first walked into it, I was terrified. You start out the match in these pods, and you're just watching everyone go at it, waiting for your time.
Alexa Bliss
Time
You
Waiting
First
Nothing
Everyone
Out
About
Terrified
Match
Go
Walked
Just
Your
Appealing
Chamber
Start
Elimination
Watching
I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.
Alexa Von Tobel
People
First
Pay
Setting
Savings
Savings Account
Direct
Part
Advocate
Always
Encourage
Up
Account
Goes
Establishing
Automatic
Transfer
Deposit
Straight
Themselves
Really
Your
Paycheck
Each
Acadia was founded in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson as the first Eastern national park, aided by rich men, often with middle initials, the 'rusticators,' as they were known then, the first of our wealthy out-of-state visitors.
Alexander Chee
Men
First
National
Rich
Aided
Our
Visitors
Eastern
Wealthy
Wilson
Park
Known
Were
National Park
Often
Middle
Woodrow
Woodrow Wilson
Then
Initial
Founded
At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine.
Alexander Chee
Writing
Sometimes
First
Living
Resources
Way
Libraries
Would
Fine
Touch
Having
More
More Or Less
Push
Institutional
Mostly
Access
Making
Making A Living
Any
Maybe
While
Aside
Straightforward
Teaching
Less
I've known the poet Eileen Myles since the 1990s, when I first moved to New York, and I remember seeing her walking her Pit Bull Rosie around the East Village. She had these beautiful arms and David Cassidy hair and the sort of swagger so many of the gay boys I knew wished we had. We all had crushes on her.
Alexander Chee
Beautiful
Gay
Remember
Poet
Hair
First
East
East Village
Seeing
David
Had
Knew
Since
New
Wished
Crushes
She
Arms
Known
Sort
Around
Boy
Bull
Walking
York
Pit
Moved
New York
Swagger
Rosie
Many
Village
Her
I'm not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his first two novels, 'Garden State' (1992) and 'The Ice Storm' (1994).
Alexander Chee
Garden
Moody
Thought
First
State
His
Want
Fan
After
Storm
Ice
Might
Much
Rick
Appear
Novels
Two
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