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There are some times I'm really busy and other times I'm not, but I prefer to be really busy because I generally don't know what to do with myself when I'm not wrestling or on the road.
Adam Cole
Myself
Busy
Other
Some
Wrestling
Generally
Road
Know
Because
Times
Prefer
Really
For me, generally speaking, I don't like to make a big deal out of stuff.
Adam Cole
Me
Big
Out
Generally
Stuff
Like
Make
Deal
Big Deal
Speaking
As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.
Adam Schlesinger
Time
Good
Great
You
Together
First
Singing
Lyric
Distinctive
Melody
Find
More
Voice
Beat
Writer
Generally
Exciting
Singing Voice
Ties
First Time
Hearing
Very
Than
Expected
Listener
Even
Suddenly
Riff
Satisfying
Neatly
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai Stevenson I
Man
Strange
Animal
Back
Generally
He
Until
Read
His
Up
Wall
Handwriting
Cannot
Against
Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.
Adrian McKinty
Will
Heroic
Unless
Embarrass
Characters
Writers
Attempt
Generally
Institution
Like
Make
Because
Educated
Go
Truly
Mobility
Privately
Efforts
Lack
Social
Themselves
Then
Lower
Working
England
Who
The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underground' is usually - the distinction is usually in terms of whether it's made by one person, the entire thing is done by one hand or more of a production line process, which is how the comics that we grew up reading were made.
Adrian Tomine
Made
Reading
Think
Type
Distinction
Cartooning
Entire
More
Generally
Terms
Underground
Alternative
How
Comics
Line
Were
Referred
Hand
Up
Person
Done
Grew
Process
Whether
Which
Production
Thing
Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.
Adrian Younge
Relationship
Composer
Perceived
Generally
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.
Aimee Bender
Life
Character
Writing
Think
Way
Kind
Some
Magical
Emotional
Tends
Emotional Life
Generally
Most
Access
Element
We never thought about getting into banking, as it is not an attractive business as perceived generally. This was also not a consideration when we decided to invest in Shriram Group.
Ajay Piramal
Business
Thought
Group
Consideration
About
Perceived
Invest
Generally
Never
Also
Attractive
Getting
Banking
Decided
I generally leave the television on while I'm working.
Akira Toriyama
Television
Generally
Leave
While
Working
I use a G-Pen from Zebra. Different people have different preferred pen nibs. I don't put much force on it when I draw, so I'll generally use a single nib for about three chapters.
Akira Toriyama
People
Three
Single
Chapters
Pen
Draw
About
Generally
Put
Force
Different
Preferred
Much
Different People
Use
I am a very physical actor. I generally use my hands a lot.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
Physical
Generally
Am
Lot
Very
Hands
Use
Actor
I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make sense of them. I'm more worried that I'm going to die before I've had time.
Alain de Botton
Life
Time
Me
Culture
Try
Before
Sense
Think
Guess
Worried
About
More
Generally
Had
Overall
Concern
Make
Issues
Die
Going
Them
Plan
Use
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
Alan Alda
People
Laughing
Generally
Another
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
Alan Bennett
Life
Elsewhere
Something
Generally
Happens
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
Alan Dershowitz
Truth
Hide
Job
Defense
Guilty
Generally
He
Attorney
Make
Sure
Because
Does
Arrive
Jury
Wants
Defendant
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
Alan Huffman
Pandemic
Adequate
Response
More
Generally
Develop
Without
Spread
Continent
Than
Which
Epidemic
Means
When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.
Alan Moore
Time
Together
Ending
Beginning
Thinking
Once
About
Through
Write
Points
Generally
Putting
Idea
Know
Couple
Sort
Halfway
Although
Got
Up
Story
Sentence
I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.
Alastair Reynolds
Engineering
Corollary
Steam
Generally
Idea
Victorian
Engines
Fascinated
Technologies
All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
Albert Brooks
You
Anger
People
Comedy
Other
All People
Generally
Know
Because
How
Yelling
Improv
Improvising
Notice
Turns
Shows
Each
Basically
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.
Alex Berenson
Pay
Rules
Details
Tab
Give
Federal
Generally
Put
Along
Executives
Known
Loopholes
Because
Perks
Disclosure
Traded
Stock
Options
Personal
Often
Expenses
Avoid
Companies
Company
Publicly
Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.
Alex Pareene
Man
Impress
Rich
Society
Christopher
Late
Type
Easy
Bore
Generally
He
Mainly
Cultivated
Lot
Friends
Essayist
Being
Certain
Electrified
Who
Washington
Hence
I generally use 'threat intelligence' when I'm talking about a product packaged and sold by a dedicated commercial entity and 'information sharing' as something that happens between security teams at trusted parties without renumeration.
Alex Stamos
Intelligence
Sold
Security
Threat
About
Something
Entity
Generally
Sharing
Between
Parties
Talking
Without
Trusted
Commercial
Happens
Information
Packaged
Product
Use
Dedicated
Teams
But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
Alexander Payne
Problem
Country
Big
Think
Films
Has-Been
About
Generally
Days
Making
Been
Lousy
Big Problem
Quite
Just
Quite A While
While
Whole
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Alfred Marshall
Money
Silver
Adopt
Both
Civilized
Generally
Countries
Gold
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
Alfred Russel Wallace
History
Natural
Organization
Animals
Consider
Has-Been
Structure
Point
Habits
Take
Writers
Generally
Instincts
Been
Accordance
Fixed
Natural History
Custom
Them
Adapted
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