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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Edward Gibbon
Nature
Quality
Courage
Human Nature
Soldier
Cheapest
Most
Human
Common
Found
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.
Edward Hirsch
Problems
Solve
Some
Poetic
Comfort
Because
Were
Trying
Human
Just
Found
We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Edward McKendree Bounds
God
Spiritual
Prayer
Will
Poverty
Power
Preaching
Secret
Our
Ways
Spirit
True
Excuse
Lack
May
Urgent
Holy
Holy Spirit
Many
Found
Presence
For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.
Edward Rutherfurd
Love
Wonderful
Old
Research
Imagination
Everything
Guide
Trick
Lavish
London
Paris
New
Most
Wrote
Historical
York
New York
Using
Novelists
Novels
Maps
Found
The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.
Edward Zwick
Men
Those
Circumstances
Involved
Around
Were
Expected
Getting
Themselves
Who
Found
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
Edwin Morgan
Work
Own
Other
My Own
Poetry
Writers
Between
Translated
Explore
Fascinating
Filled
Found
I found ways to maintain my performance through working with professionals and doing things that other people weren't doing. Later in my career, I had a great physical therapist who kept me out on the track. We were doing innovative things like ice baths back in the early '80s when everyone else thought it was crazy.
Edwin Moses
Great
Me
Crazy
People
Thought
Other
Else
Back
Everyone
Innovative
Everyone Else
Baths
Later
Ways
Out
Physical
Through
Had
Maintain
Performance
Like
Track
Doing
Were
Ice
Working
Therapist
Who
Found
Professionals
Things
Early
Career
Kept
After Ann Godoff, who was editor-in-chief at Random House, left and went to Viking, I got to know Viking and the people there, and liked them very much. I also found a wonderful editor there, Wendy Wolf. It's a very congenial press.
Elaine Pagels
People
Wonderful
Random
Wolf
Press
Know
Liked
House
Also
Got
Editor
Left
Very
After
Them
Much
Congenial
Who
Found
I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
Elaine Stritch
Myself
Me
Could
Never
Look
Well
Anyone
After
Who
Found
I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
Elayne Boosler
Funny
Truth
News
Thought
Pure
Elsewhere
Entertaining
Ability
Able
Only
Through
Had
Raw
Make
Comics
Were
Off
Comment
Intelligent
Decade
Truths
Place
Social
Newspapers
Pages
Pertinent
Found
Actual
Last
Last Decade
Pull
The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.
Eli Broad
Life
Love
Good
Family
Science
People
Three
Satisfied
Exaggerating
Higher
Doing
Times
Than
Family Life
Maybe
Happiest
Happiest People
Found
Good Family
I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.
Elisabeth Shue
Myself
Library
Class
Women
People
Important
Reading
Own
Young
Way
See
About
My Own
Soon
Learn
Read
Because
Came
Motivated
Were
Lot
Intellectually
Surrounded
Curious
Young Women
Required
Who
Including
Found
Enjoying
Seclusion
Started
I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.
Eliza Coupe
Funny
Speak
Comedy
Later
Daniel
Out
Indie
Indie Film
Week
Shanghai
Lead
Had
Town
Because
Female
Doing
America
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
China
Chinese
Little
Then
Shot
Bill
Film
Found
Actually
I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.
Eliza Dushku
Me
Science
School
Political
Big
Kind
TV
Boston
Never
Go
Political Science
Famous
Movie
Wanted
Movie Star
Star
Found
Professor
When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry.
Elizabeth Berg
Work
Wonderful
Go Away
Laundry
Boston
Had
House
Because
Go
Quiet
Office
Refrigerator
Lived
Found
Away
Researchers have found that the brain definitely sends nerves directly to organs of the immune system and not just to the heart and the lower gut. In that way, too, the brain is influencing the body.
Elizabeth Blackburn
Heart
Too
Way
Definitely
System
Immune
Nerves
Gut
Directly
Brain
Sends
Just
Influencing
Lower
Body
Organs
Researchers
Found
When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life.
Elizabeth Debicki
Life
College
Drama
Finally
Melbourne
Study
Felt
Arts
Place
Victorian
Found
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.
Elizabeth George
Wish
Back
Would
Write
Lead
Had
Known
Mastery
Frightening
Process
Then
Product
Found
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
Elizabeth McGovern
Stage
On-Screen
More
Than
Screen
Much
Acting
Found
Challenging
Privacy is so sacred, and any time a victim is returned, a survivor is found and rescued, privacy is one of the greatest gifts we can give them because if they decide to share, that's up to them, and they will come forward.
Elizabeth Smart
Time
Privacy
Will
Victim
Gifts
Give
Sacred
Share
Come
Returned
Because
Greatest
Greatest Gifts
Up
Survivor
Any
Decide
Them
Rescued
Forward
Found
I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Day
Character
Every Day
Phone
Smart
Walk
Lost
Every
Seeming
Except
Could
Main
Main Character
No-One
Hours
Occasional
Mobile
Get
American
Did
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Banker
Psycho
Hollywood
Hollywood Star
Village
Star
Found
I found out that I'd broken up with someone when I wasn't even aware I was going out with them!
Ella Eyre
Broken
Out
Someone
Up
Going
Them
Even
Found
Aware
The first time I found out that 'Boo'd Up' went platinum, I was handed the plaque. They really surprised me. I thought we were gold, and then Mustard and my managers brought the plaque to my rehearsals and told me. I was like, 'You are lying!' Like, I couldn't believe it. I'm just honored, honestly. It's a great feeling.
Ella Mai
Time
Great
Me
You
Thought
First
Feeling
Believe
Honestly
Lying
Honored
Great Feeling
Out
Mustard
Brought
Like
First Time
Were
Surprised
Handed
Up
Managers
Just
Gold
Then
Really
Rehearsals
Platinum
Found
As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.
Ellen Gustafson
Food
Problem
Increasingly
Our
Further
Hunger
System
Obesity
Investigation
Global
Advocate
Existing
Perplexity
Found
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
Ellen McLaughlin
Work
Courage
Own
Playwright
Drama
Others
Kind
My Own
Well
Became
Understand
Smug
Modern
Lack
Frustrated
Interested
Engaged
Found
Now
Deeply
Early
Enlightened
Amused
Plays
I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
Ellie Goulding
Music
Me
Peace
Heart
Better
Difficult
Increasingly
Music Career
Panic
Saw
Having
Attacks
Outside
Step
Taking
Feel
Like
Make
Doing
Off
Get
Getting
Just
After
Flat
Therapist
Who
Found
Things
Started
Career
Needed
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