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Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
Alexis Herman
Today
Good
You
Degree
College
First
College Degree
Rate
Potential
Good Times
Particularly
First Of All
Times
Unemployment
Unemployment Rate
American
Graduate
Any
Graduation
African
African Americans
Breach
Anyone
Really
I am very proud to be the first Chilean player ever to play for United's first team, and I hope I can show our fans all around the world why the club wanted to bring me here.
Alexis Sanchez
Hope
Me
World
Fans
First
Club
Our
All-Around
Be The First
Around
Proud
Am
Very
Wanted
Show
Team
United
Why
Ever
Play
Player
Bring
Here
I did have a problem concentrating on anything for more than 10 seconds. I was one of the first kids in the U.K. to go on Ritalin, and my mum hated it, and I hated it.
Alfie Allen
Problem
First
Seconds
Kids
Hated
More
Concentrating
Go
Than
Did
Anything
Mum
My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.
Alfonso Soriano
You
People
Language
Tough
First
Year
Latin
Easier
Find
Someone
Had
Like
Talk
Talks
Least
Lot
Very
Get
Just
Anybody
Depressed
Japan
Your
Who
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!
Alfred Enoch
Time
Birthday
Me
Director
Theatre
First
Seven
Somehow
Shakespeare
Lead
Had
Sonnet
Globe
Because
Doing
Been
Friends
Did
Artistic
Dad
Season
By The Time
If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.
Alfred Hermann Fried
War
Justice
First
Wish
Settlement
Anarchy
Must
Condition
Order
Substitute
International
Disputes
I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.
Alfred Molina
You
Treat
First
Okay
Scene
Takes
Like
Doing
Camera
Off
Where
Worked
Who
Rehearsal
Rehearsals
Actor
Treating
Two
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
Alfred Schnittke
You
Experience
First
Composer
Do You Know
Know
Concerto
Accordion
Very
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
Algernon Blackwood
Time
Memory
Strong
First
Vivid
Scene
Emotion
First Time
Occurred
Leaves
Where
Experienced
The first thing that I see in a woman are her eyes. Sorry, it sounds shallow, but eyes say a lot about a person.
Ali Fazal
Woman
Eyes
First
Sorry
Say
See
About
Shallow
First Thing
Sounds
Lot
Person
The First Thing
Her
Thing
'Fast And Furious 7' was quite random. I remember that it was the first holiday that I took in the entire year. I was in Mussoorie for two days with my friends when I got a call from my international PRs asking me to audition for 'Fast And Furious 7.'
Ali Fazal
Me
Remember
Random
First
Year
Took
Furious
Entire
Days
Call
Got
Audition
Friends
Quite
Holiday
Asking
International
Fast
Two
When you first meet someone, it's always about one-upmanship. The couple tries to impress each other.
Ali Fazal
You
First
Impress
Other
Meet
Tries
About
Someone
Couple
Always
Each
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
Ali Smith
Life
Book
Language
First
Final
Alive
Writer
Open
Reader
Line
Page
Levels
Need
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
Ali Smith
Time
Thoughts
First
Past
Speed
Back
Our
Bent
Characters
Paragraph
Along
Know
Well
First Time
Still
End
Rolling
Flash
Century
Tweet
Search
Traveling
Now
Kept
For the first year I lived in New York, I never ate out. I literally just ate lentils and brown rice at home. Sometimes I'd treat myself to this half chicken from Chinatown that cost $3.50.
Ali Wong
Myself
Home
Treat
Sometimes
First
Half
Year
Out
Ate
Brown
Cost
Never
New
Chicken
York
Just
New York
Literally
Chinatown
Rice
Lived
Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
Alice Dellal
Work
First
Picture
Took
Photographers
Some
Hours
Hours And Hours
Same
Then
Use
Image
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
Alice McDermott
Prayer
Language
Church
First
Ways
Poetry
Catholic
Catholic Church
Gospels
Liturgy
Many
I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.
Alice McDermott
First
Worry
Telling
Students
Make
First-Person
Always
Person
Difference
Much
Third
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.
Alice Morse Earle
Sometimes
First
Year
Further
Out
Bay
Log
Plymouth
More
Colonies
Foot
Over
Attic
Houses
Frequently
Built
Still
Were
Replaced
Wooden
Stories
Story
Chimney
Which
Extending
Second
Two
The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.
Alice Morse Earle
Law
First
Half
Build
Valleys
Must
Colonists
Since
New
Within
Around
Built
Were
Often
Ordered
Meadow
Them
Lands
Mile
Homes
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
Alice Morse Earle
Sad
Life
Strange
World
Thought
First
Ocean
Fathers
Those
Born
Crossed
Something
Boston
Colonial
New
Pilgrims
Years
Infancy
New World
Children
Who
Amsterdam
When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.
Alice Morse Earle
First
Difficulties
Settlers
Must
Finding
Unbearable
Seemed
Almost
Well
Making
Shelter
American
Shores
Landed
The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.
Alice Morse Earle
Natural
First
Way
Everywhere
Plenty
Both
Colonists
Lighting
Most
Course
Houses
Greatest
Were
South
Forests
North
American
Which
Natural Way
Found
Fat
'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in the 1950s, and then I stopped sending for a long time and sent only to magazines in Canada. 'The New Yorker' sent me nice notes, though - penciled, informal messages. They never signed them. They weren't terribly encouraging.
Alice Munro
Time
Me
Long
Long Time
First
Nice
Though
Signed
Magazines
Only
Never
New
Messages
Terribly
Were
Encouraging
Canada
Yorker
Sending
Stopped
New Yorker
Stories
Informal
Story
Sent
Them
Notes
Then
Published
Early
Royal
'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.
Alice Munro
Experience
Editing
First
Few
More
More Or Less
Had
New
Yorker
Just
New Yorker
Much
Really
Less
Serious
Suggestions
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
Alice Munro
Me
You
Change
Writing
Seriously
Thought
Trouble
First
Nothing
Think
Books
Has-Been
Besides
More
Writer
Troubles
Taken
Wishing
Until
Wrote
Were
Been
Lot
Five
Than
Short
Stories
Short Stories
While
Working
Used
Novel
Now
Kept
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