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I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.
Shirley Manson
Mother
Parents
Embarrassed
Because
Always
Hippies
Were
Friends
Cozy
Flat
While
Wore
Dad
Suit
I do some weightlifting and use medicine balls as well for balance for my core. I want my stomach to look flat. I have to.
Sibel Kekilli
Balance
Medicine
Some
Look
Well
Balls
Stomach
Want
Flat
Use
Core
I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.
Sophie Hannah
Me
Thought
Pay
Live
Two-Year
Secretary
Would
Give
Give Me
Could
Write
Fellowship
Always
Got
Salary
Offering
Manchester
Heaven
Where
Flat
Then
Working
Letter
I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?
Steve Sabol
Time
Woman
Thought
Face
Single
Same Thing
Though
Would
See
Three-Dimensional
Through
Picasso
Football
He
Almost
Look
Well
Always
How
Been
Same
Flat
Canvas
Perspectives
Separate
Fascinated
Moments
Multiple
Even
Why
Play
Thing
Image
The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
Steve Vai
You
People
Better
First
Few
Bend
Seventh
Scale
Like
Learned
First Thing
Because
Sound
Real
Authentic
The First Thing
Just
Blues
Flat
Them
Notes
Cool
Using
Thing
Player
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station.
Steven Berkoff
War
Time
Me
World
Parents
Sister
Every
Nights
Beneath
Station
East
Would
London
Point
Take
Road
Underground
Shelter
Blitz
Off
End
Grab
Flat
Us
Each
Lived
Each Time
Second
Every Night
Night
World War
Second World War
I was talking in an interview about how I would love to have a ballerina flat for men. Repetto heard about it and decided to create one. It's almost like a slipper.
Stromae
Love
Men
Interview
Would
About
Almost
Like
Talking
How
Ballerina
Heard
Flat
Decided
Create
My hair is like flat baby hair after I wash it, so it needs something in it to get that 'day after' texture.
Suki Waterhouse
Day
Needs
Hair
Baby
Something
Like
Texture
Get
After
Flat
Wash
I do crunches to keep those abs going strong and flat. I'm not a sedentary person.
Susan Lucci
Strong
Those
Sedentary
Person
Going
Flat
Keep
I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.
Susan Orlean
Me
Twitter
Other
Considered
Way
Bit
Dimension
Seemed
Give
Perfect
Inspired
Never
Had
Messages
Always
Text
Up
Greek
Than
Flat
Anywhere
Little
Them
Might
Using
Chorus
Now
Murmuring
Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.
Susan Vreeland
Values
Sacrifice
Willing
More
Argue
River
Tower
She
Covered
Than
Person
Liquid
Influence
Flat
Land
Landscape
Viewed
I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.
Suzanne Somers
Happy
People
Three
Think
Thinking
Took
Back
Way
Broke
Something
Part
Likable
Make
Got
How
Understood
Dumb
Blondes
Get
Achieved
Flat
Irritating
While
Realize
Acting
Company
Her
Kept
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
Taiye Selasi
Work
Beautiful
Home
You
Man
Dark
Darkness
Walk
Church
Live
Way
See
Minutes
His
Five
Just
Where
Want
Flat
Rome
Race
Create
Paint
Uses
By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.
Thomas Friedman
Work
People
World
Care
Power
Doctors
Before
Tools
Collaborate
Indian
More
More People
Hospitals
Take
Take Care
Equal
Read
Said
German
Than
Office
American
Did
Getting
Flat
Places
Mean
Connect
Now
Why
Ever
Compete
When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.
Tim Griffin
Better
Homework
Consumption
Looked
Concluded
Issue
Than
Did
Tax
Flat
Flat Tax
Often we eat squid fried, so it's fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open into two flat pieces and thread them, along with the tentacles, onto skewers, then grill quickly over a direct fire with the coals as close as possible to the grate, turning the squid several times.
Tom Douglas
Change
Fire
Slice
Several
Possible
Thread
Eat
Direct
Onto
Cleaned
Open
Over
Along
Pieces
Fried
Close
Quickly
Times
Often
Flat
Grill
Them
Then
Turning
Bodies
Coal
Fun
Two
In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.
Tony Bradman
Time
School
Seen
Parents
Year
Sister
Older
Living
Later
Several
London
Abroad
Had
Divorced
Couple
Him
Unusual
Got
Years
South
Five
Junior
Flat
Which
Working
Separated
Dad
Older Sister
Mum
Last
Last Year
I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.
Victoria Beckham
Good
Me
People
Looking
Shoes
Would
Dressing
About
Stuff
Looking Good
Comfortable
Always
Got
Surprise
Up
Trainers
Get
Done
Flat
Flats
Jeans
Pair
Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds.
Virginia Postrel
Service
Food
Travel
Clouds
World
Better
Amazing
Better World
Air
Air Travel
Airline
Promised
Dress
Above
More
Never
Glamour
No-One
Hot
Massage
Comfortable
Bed
Era
Salad
Reflected
Expected
Just
Formal
Anything
Flat
Elbow
Room
Much
Less
Mundane
I don't want to be the crazy showbiz family. When I walk into the PTA meetings with my sensible flat shoes and my sensible short wig, I do not look crazy.
Wendy Williams
Family
Crazy
Walk
Shoes
Wig
Meetings
Look
Short
Want
Flat
Sensible
Showbiz
I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.
Wes Craven
Buy
First
Think
Everything
Broke
Stayed
About
Strongly
Point
No-One
Nobody
Wrote
Felt
Very
Wanted
Literally
Flat
Certain
Certain Point
Paying
Street
Draft
Assistant
Kept
Nightmare
Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
Wilbur Smith
Work
Hard Work
Good
You
Yourself
People
Writing
Judge
Impossible
Face
Fall
Bad
Perceived
Write
Main
Main Thing
Good Writing
Mostly
Learn
Read
Because
Audience
How
Want
Flat
Then
Your
Hard
Thing
Application
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
War
Diplomacy
Fall
Out
Would
Week
Take
Flat
Thing
I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
William Shatner
Hate
Flying
Out
Guts
Flat
Flat Out
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Zadie Smith
Books
Like
House
Around
Go
Any
Flat
Them
Keep
Mum
Copies
One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.
Zoe Quinn
Somebody
Joke
Else
Way
Delivering
Coming
Person
Flat
While
Land
Really
Unique
Elevate
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