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When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
Mike Royko
Myself
Sports
Hero
Jordan
Without
Michael
Michael Jordan
Quit
Suddenly
Found
Music is just a huge part of my life. It affects moods. I've always found it insane how you can hear one song, and it takes you back to a specific, specific moment in your life, and you remember it vividly like it was yesterday.
Mike Vogel
Life
Music
You
Song
Remember
My Life
Yesterday
Back
Insane
Moods
Vividly
Part
Takes
Like
Always
How
Hear
Affects
Huge
Huge Part
Just
Your
Moment
Found
Specific
Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Work
Space
Fall
Broaden
Would
Magnetic
Could
Known
Continuous
Quench
Off
Fields
Transition
Then
Helped
Professional
Initially
Suddenly
Enhanced
Found
Presence
Phase
Started
A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral deposits around the planet.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Nature
Mineral
Sheet
Around
Up
Just
Happens
Planet
Seamlessly
Found
Carbon
I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.
Milo Ventimiglia
Me
Tough Times
Events
Tough
Isolation
Think
Imagination
Horrible
Never
Idea
Performance
Coupled
Built
Times
Get
Story
Anywhere
Depth
Figured
Found
Actor
I found that people want stories that are not too dissimilar from theirs. People want to be reminded that, let's say, struggle in your family is being felt by other people, that you're not alone.
Milo Ventimiglia
Alone
Family
You
Struggle
People
Too
Other
Dissimilar
Say
Reminded
Felt
Being
Want
Stories
Your
Found
I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected.
Miranda Otto
Great
You
Experience
Respected
Would
About
Rather
Hot
Very
Being
Means
Found
What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have 'normal jobs' where they don't play pretend for a living is that... Hollywood is absurd but very open about its absurdity.
Miriam Shor
Life
Family
My Life
Living
Jobs
Pretend
About
Open
Absurd
Absurdity
Normal
Friends
Very
Friends And Family
Where
Interesting
Hollywood
Who
Found
Play
Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. I would love to choreograph and dance around.
Misty Copeland
Life
Love
Teacher
Me
You
Training
School
Dance
Guess
Danced
Say
Would
Inside
Seeing
Something
Could
Never
Had
Around
Always
Ballet
Discovered
Any
Middle
Middle School
Exposed
Whole
Choreograph
Found
I don't eat a ton of pasta or bread. But I eat dessert almost every night, and I drink. You need a bit of balance, and I've found mine.
Misty Copeland
You
Balance
Every
Dessert
Mine
Bit
Eat
Drink
Almost
Pasta
Bread
Found
Ton
Every Night
Night
Need
Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move.
Misty Copeland
Music
Space
Empty Space
Chaos
Kids
Could
Arguing
Put
House
Empty
Move
Just
Screaming
Whenever
Being
Where
Whether
Us
Found
My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.
Misty Copeland
Family
Me
Money
Old
Girl
First
Clothes
Club
Randomly
Though
Some
Gym
Liked
Terrified
Court
Practicing
Boy
Ballet
Were
Very
Just
Much
Really
Radar
Even
Found
Socks
Basketball
Basketball Court
Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV. So, I just used those avenues I found available right in my milieu to express what was inside of me.
Misty Copeland
Me
Dance
Those
TV
Find
Inside
Gymnastics
Could
Hip-Hop
Surrounded
Up
Closest
Closest Thing
Just
Which
Available
Avenues
Used
Milieu
Express
Growing
Growing Up
Found
Right
Thing
Watched
I always knew that I wanted to be an actor. I made my debut on stage when I was 12, and I was sure that this is what made me happy. However, nobody takes a 12-year-old's career choice seriously. Everybody laughed it off. I also ran away from it, but acting eventually found me.
Mithila Palkar
Me
Happy
Seriously
Made
Stage
Everybody
Ran
Laughed
Knew
Takes
Nobody
Also
Sure
Always
However
Off
Debut
Wanted
Choice
Acting
Found
Actor
Eventually
Away
Career
Career Choice
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
Mitski
Me
Crisis
Would
Would-Be
Identity
Itself
Where
Place
Found
Ever
Belonged
I must admit I found it astonishing to watch the candidates below Donald Trump beat up each other and never lay a glove on the front-runner. I mean, when I was running, everybody went after the front-runner and pointed out my weaknesses and foibles, and that's part of the normal primary process.
Mitt Romney
Other
Everybody
Astonishing
Out
Must
Weaknesses
Running
Admit
Lay
Beat
Pointed
Never
Part
Primary
Glove
Normal
Trump
Up
Donald
Donald Trump
Candidates
After
Process
Mean
Each
Found
Watch
Below
I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.
Molly Antopol
Me
Long
Advice
Own
Other
Side
Took
Back
Though
Out
Tell
Plots
Seek
My Own
Writers
Students
Wrote
Always
Years
Models
Stories
Story
Heed
Really
Full
Who
Found
I worked through cancer twice. I probably worked through it too much the last time. This time, I found myself saying, 'Well, I don't feel well. I think I'll take the day off.' I think I did that even a little bit more than I needed to.
Molly Ivins
Saying
Time
Myself
Day
Cancer
Too Much
Think
Too
Bit
More
Through
Take
Feel
Well
Off
Than
Did
Little
Little Bit
Worked
Much
Even
Found
Twice
Last
Needed
Last Time
To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything.
Mona Eltahawy
Day
Me
Library
Everything
Librarian
Would
Thread
No Idea
Unravel
Idea
Terror
Understood
Feminist
Were
Texts
Placed
Them
Filled
Found
Professor
University
Pulling
My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.
Mona Simpson
Better
Job
Long
First
Sold
Later
Slightly
Jobs
Run
Cart
Long Series
Thus
First Job
Until
Still
Continue
Began
Than
Decade
Goes
Pacific
Even
Novel
Series
Each
Even Now
Film
Found
Now
Each One
Last
Position
I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.
Monica Ali
Love
Somebody
Before
Think
Books
Favorite
Gifts
Introduce
About
Giver
Writer
Excited
Get
Any
Going
Really
Found
So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.
Monica Lewinsky
Me
Change
People
Made
Important
Think
Correct
Out
Some
About
Fact
Misperceptions
Opinion
Trying
Stop
Should
Found
My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.
Morgan Brittany
Work
Me
Mother
Walk
Dance
Country
Singing
Difficult
Dance Classes
Out
Classes
Born
Could
Had
Put
Soon
Singer
She
Been
Western
Very
Get
Moved
Hollywood
Found
Actually
The first night I met Yo-Yo Ma, I found him the most charming person I had ever met, and I was willing to follow him with the camera anywhere.
Morgan Neville
First
Met
Ma
Willing
Follow
Charming
Had
Most
Him
Camera
Person
Anywhere
Found
Ever
Night
I'm such a dork, but I really think there are derivatives to be found between story arcs and character motivations. And the way you evaluate functions is a really interesting way to look at stories and the way you act. I really believe it.
Morgan Saylor
Character
You
Believe
Think
Way
Between
Look
Motivations
Stories
Dork
Story
Interesting
Interesting Way
Really
Act
Derivatives
Evaluate
Functions
Found
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz
Life
You
Back
Because
Go
Want
Meaning
Your
Forward
Found
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