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A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.
Terry Teachout
Situation
Playwright
Characters
He
Concentrate
Forced
Himself
Limited
Limits
Handful
Essentials
Who
Chosen
Portray
I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Witness
Care
Mind
Parents
Cruelty
Own
Guardians
Physical
Mental
My Own
Never
Part
Performance
Talent
Forced
Protesting
Without
Blindness
Least
Exhibition
Any
Children
Against
Them
Whoever
Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Strong
Will
Men
Field
Those
Hormones
Some
Unrequited
Vast
Gladly
Tens
Tens Of Millions
Force
Forced
Policy
Around
Female
Wage
Due
Off
Western
Burn
China
Shortage
Planet
Created
Wars
Millions
When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.
Tim Ferriss
Time
Me
Learning
Culture
Guidance
First
Year
Own
Approaches
Spent
My Own
Abroad
Develop
Abundance
Combined
New
Forced
First Time
Juggling
Stimuli
Left
Shock
Lack
Japan
Thousands of Americans are forced to join unions as a condition of employment, with little to no chance of ever having their voices heard.
Tim Scott
Unions
No Chance
Thousands
Having
Join
Voices
Employment
Forced
Condition
Heard
American
Little
Ever
Chance
Do you remember the first three years of Steam? People absolutely hated that Valve forced you to launch their game through what some people called a virus at the time, which was the Steam client. But Steam led the digital distribution revolution: it was the first across all platforms.
Tim Sweeney
Time
You
Game
People
Remember
Digital
Some People
Three
First
Revolution
Virus
Valve
Launch
Distribution
Hated
Some
Steam
Through
Absolutely
Forced
Client
Years
Led
Which
Across
Platforms
I'm into everything. My iPod is very eclectic - if you kept it on shuffle, you'd be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It's ridiculous.
Tinie Tempah
You
Example
Everything
Memorabilia
Eclectic
Bought
Obsessed
For Example
She
Forced
Amazed
iPod
Dolly Parton
Up
Very
Front
Room
Grow
Grow Up
Ridiculous
Mum
Her
Shuffle
Kept
There's nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever society. That's the greatest thing human beings can aspire to. Whether forced by duress, Jews became perfect modern human beings. After the Holocaust, one doesn't really mourn for that - it's too disturbing, seems like a mistake.
Tom Reiss
Mistake
Better
Whatever
Nothing
Society
Too
Jews
Disturbing
Seems
Perfect
Merge
Like
Forced
Became
Greatest
Greatest Thing
Than
Mourn
Duress
Modern
Human
Human Beings
After
Whether
Holocaust
Really
Aspire
Who
Seamlessly
Beings
Thing
The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!
Tommy Lee
Broken
Heart
Old
Other
Ancient
Ancient Rome
Easy
Horses
Attacks
Forced
Without
Dude
Tradition
West
Off
Western
Bloody
Get
Die
Legs
Rome
Races
Injuries
Spectacle
Necks
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.
Tony Kushner
Life
Hope
Best
You
Lie
Difficult
Think
Worst
Possibility
Possibly
Only
Know
Forced
Because
Go
Encounter
Going
The Only Thing
Then
Choice
Even
Thing
Basically
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.
Tracey Ullman
Comedy
Walls
Too
Embarrassing
Find
Seem
Most
Forced
Because
Idiots
Doing
Lot
Sitcoms
Orange
Against
Stand-Up Comedy
Brick
Many
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at Juilliard, and we learned Shakespeare and Shaw, but we never did the work of a single African-American playwright, not August Wilson or Ntozake Shange or Imir Baraka.
Tracie Thoms
Work
Culture
School
Single
Playwright
Other
Ours
Wilson
Shakespeare
Never
Forced
Learn
Learned
Always
August
Juilliard
Did
African-American
Acting
Acting School
Like every Aussie actor, I'd rather be working here; it's just we've all been forced to go to the States. Business-wise, as an actor, it's more lucrative, and there's also a lot more of it there.
Travis Fimmel
Every
States
Rather
More
Like
Also
Forced
Go
Been
Aussie
Lot
Just
Working
Lucrative
Actor
Here
I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.
Trent Reznor
Depression
Balance
Bit
Ways
Recognize
Through
Recovery
Wired
Wrong
Terms
Forced
Learned
Chemical
Brain
Lot
Off
Process
Little
Little Bit
Certain
I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.
Vik Muniz
You
Trust
Communicate
Political
Black
Invent
Brazil
Market
Way
Say
Ways
Distress
Born
Had
Forced
Learn
Sort
Climate
Doing
Up
Very
Wanted
Grew
Information
Much
Really
Specific
The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
Viktor Orban
Freedom
Nature
Fight
Will
Become
Revolution
Extreme
Despotism
Case
More
Only
Empire
Name
Forced
Uprising
Against
Turn
Communists
Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.
Wagner Moura
Suffering
Women
People
Poverty
Other
Indigenous
Most
Protected
Forced
Vulnerable
Least
Affected
Perpetuating
Affects
Labor
Discrimination
Dependency
Children
Different
Vicious
Migrant
Workers
Cycle
Grounds
Groups
Disproportionately
I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.
Will Ferrell
Myself
Crazy
College
Idiot
Enough
Pants
Would
My Friend
Crowd
Push
Over
Like
Look
Forced
Overhead
Always
Got
How
Friend
Campus
Just
Being
Public
Low
Crazy Things
Then
Across
Show
Incite
Butt
Things
Shy
I'll just say it: I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine.
Will Poulter
Fear
School
Tool
Back
Back To School
Mine
Say
Sharpest
Forced
Box
Still
Go
Just
Being
I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on the continent of Europe, finds the contrast between a government of power and a government of opinion forced upon him at every step.
William Cullen Bryant
Government
Better
Citizen
Power
Every
Think
Every Step
States
Finds
Shall
Step
Between
Forced
Him
Return
Opinion
Continent
Left
Contrast
Than
America
Patriot
Europe
Even
United
Travelling
United States
I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.
Win Butler
Work
You
People
Church
Sense
Community
Ways
Something
Through
Miss
Forced
Practising
Got
Go
Same
Being
Different
Bigger
Then
Really
Belonging
Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
Zac Efron
Me
Strange
Dinner
Situation
Kind
Some
Something
Dating
Like
Forced
Very
Hard
Reason
Awkward
That word 'prodigy' has such a derogatory implication. It is used to describe people who are forced to play a lot of concerts very early, people whose audience comes because of their youth, people who are exploited. None of the above really applied to me.
Hilary Hahn
Me
Youth
People
Word
Above
Implication
Forced
Because
Concerts
None
Audience
Lot
Very
Prodigy
Exploited
Really
Used
Derogatory
Who
Describe
Whose
Play
Applied
Early
I was, indeed, forced to take a break for two years. I was down with arthritis and hormonal imbalance. To add to my woes, I started putting on a lot of weight in no time.
Mumtaj
Time
Down
Imbalance
Add
Indeed
No Time
Take
Weight
Putting
Forced
Woes
Years
Lot
Arthritis
Break
Started
Two
I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in 1976. That is discomfiting for me, and a tragedy for America.
Max Boot
Myself
Me
National
Think
Increasingly
Find
Adopted
Instead
Identity
Forced
Boy
Tragedy
National Identity
America
Ethnic
Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Youth
Creation
Pay
Arab
Since
Forced
Israel
Affair
Wonder
Taught
Being
Holocaust
European
Why
Palestinians
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