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What is most remarkable to me about Durant's game is what he does given his size. It's so unique to have a player who is 6-foot-9 with the ability to shoot and handle the ball so well. It allows him to stretch the opposing team's defense because he can do those things at such a high level. He's a load to deal with and an extremely tough matchup.
Scottie Pippen
Me
Game
Tough
Opposing
Defense
Extremely
Those
High
High Level
Ability
About
Given
Remarkable
He
Most
Well
Him
Because
Deal
Ball
Does
His
Handle
Shoot
Size
Team
Who
Unique
Level
Things
Player
Load
Stretch
I wasn't given a scholarship out of high school, and that allowed me to learn what hard work was early on.
Scottie Pippen
Work
Hard Work
Me
School
Out
High
High School
Given
Allowed
Scholarship
Learn
Hard
Early
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
Seamus Heaney
God
Behavior
Sense
Took
Superfluous
Seemed
Given
Aristocrat
Unspoken
Sake
Were
Itself
Just
Them
Persuasion
Granted
Code
Speech
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
Seamus Heaney
Best
Type
Given
Drinker
Writer
Like
Himself
Am
Go
Who
Descriptions
Tom
Binge
I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.
Sean Astin
Universe
About
Given
Pounds
Had
Taken
Put
Like
Most
Off
Contracting
Expanding
Any
Any Given Moment
Either
Moment
When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.
Sebastian Coe
People
Better
Jazz
Out
See
Shake
Given
Like
Opera
Attracts
Does
Dice
Subsidies
Going
Arts
Many
Fund
I'm like, 'Wow, I guess a lot of people didn't have this type of upbringing'... that old world technique of, you know, nothing's given to you, you've gotta work for everything you've done... It's just different from what I'm seeing today.
Sebastian Maniscalco
Work
Today
You
People
World
Old
Nothing
Type
Guess
Everything
Wow
Seeing
Given
Like
Know
Gotta
Lot
Upbringing
Done
Just
Different
Old World
Technique
Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums. I wouldn't have predicted it.
Seth
You
See
Given
Attention
Major
Comics
Surprised
Reviewed
Quite
Predicted
Them
Newspapers
Serious
Now
Museums
In global health, emergency vaccine stockpiles are like the insurance policy you never really wanted to take out: you resent the cost and have mixed feelings about never making a claim. Moreover, given that a stockpile is often a last resort, if you ever fall back on it, you have, in some way, already failed.
Seth Berkley
Health
You
Feelings
Fall
Resort
Back
Way
Claim
Out
Some
About
Cost
Emergency
Given
Moreover
Take
Never
Failed
Like
Global
Policy
Insurance
Making
Mixed
Mixed Feelings
Often
Wanted
Really
Resent
Ever
Last
Vaccine
Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.
Seth Shostak
Great
Mother
Great Deal
Become
Interpretation
Late
Earth
Trendy
Destined
Given
Attention
Armageddon
Calendar
Mother Earth
Deal
Forecasting
December
Doom
Being
Suggesting
The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to 350 thousand pixels - pretty crude, given that photos made with your iPhone boast five million pixels.
Seth Shostak
Matter
Made
Top
TV
Thousand
Photos
Pretty
Given
Crude
Bottom
Longtime
Practical
Equivalent
iPhone
Lines
Five
American
Boast
Your
Standard
Roughly
Million
Image
In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read in my memoir are the stories and thoughts I've never shared openly.
Shahid Afridi
Thoughts
You
Will
Cricket
Interviews
Hundreds
TV
Memoir
TV Shows
Given
Never
Shared
Openly
Read
Years
Done
Stories
Shows
Dozens
I just want to be given respect and dignity that every senior player deserves after serving the country for so many years.
Shahid Afridi
Respect
Dignity
Country
Every
Given
Years
Senior
Just
So Many Years
Want
After
Many
Deserves
Player
Serving
I was recently very fortunate to have been introduced to Mohamed Al Fayed, a man I respect and admire immensely for what he has accomplished in his life and - above all - what he has given others.
Shahid Khan
Life
Man
Respect
Others
Immensely
Introduced
Admire
Above
Given
He
Been
His
Accomplished
Very
Fortunate
Al
Recently
Meak's World is the world I created when I was 12, when I got into the industry. I said, 'I have to do it myself. It's not going to be given to me. It has to be Meak's World.'
Shameik Moore
Myself
Me
World
Given
Industry
Said
Got
Going
Created
I tend to learn things physically - I guess it's my dance training. I never want to make too many choices too soon - so, while I am thinking about the character and thinking about her history, which is very vague in terms of what is given in the text, I am starting to have ideas about what her home is.
Sharon Lawrence
Home
Character
History
Training
Dance
Thinking
Too
Guess
About
Given
Physically
Tend
Never
Soon
Ideas
Terms
Make
Learn
Am
Text
Very
Want
Which
While
Choices
Many
Her
Things
Starting
Vague
That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.
Shaun Sipos
You
People
Job
Somebody
Sense
Type
Mine
Tell
Telling
Given
More
Week
Terms
Advertiser
Makes
How
How Many People
Go
Friend
Going
Want
Story
Them
Then
Many
Thing
Watch
Watching
Growing up, I never knew that Raffi turned down celebrity endorsements, TV shows, and specials and refused to make merchandise, but it makes sense given how I think about him: My memories are limited to his voice through the record player and the album covers I stared at.
Sheila Heti
Memories
Sense
Down
Think
TV
TV Shows
Record
About
Record Player
Given
Voice
Through
Merchandise
Never
Knew
Make
Him
Makes
Limited
How
His
Covers
Up
Celebrity
Refused
Turned
Shows
Growing
Growing Up
Stared
Player
Album
I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?
Shekhar Kapur
Music
Director
Better
Thinking
Would
Visuals
Given
Had
He
Buddha
Buddhism
Make
Making
Camera
Wonder
Get
Often
Video
Video Camera
Elements
Film
Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere. I'm still a 13-year-old kid, flying.
Shekhar Kapur
Great
Fly
South Africa
Everywhere
Flying
Kid
Given
Excited
Adventure
Tickets
Still
South
America
Africa
England
Suddenly
Filmmaking
A troll is only as powerful as your response to them. Once you respond to them or let them instigate you, then you've given them power.
Shenaz Treasury
You
Power
Once
Respond
Response
Given
Only
Powerful
Them
Then
Your
If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.
Shervin Pishevar
You
People
Entrepreneur
Job
Somewhere
Immediately
Jobs
Dream
Given
Take
New
Making
Up
New Technologies
Paths
Being
Creating
Technologies
I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.
Shiri Appleby
Me
Business
People
Opportunity
Sweet
Think
See
Given
Point
Allowed
Name
Like
Sort
Lot
Just
Show
Starting
Starting Point
I never would have given up my work to stay home.
Shirley MacLaine
Work
Home
Would
Stay
Given
Never
Up
Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.
Shiv Nadar
Education
Needs
Given
Like
Importance
Also
Healthcare
My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.
Shiv Nadar
Me
Business
Experience
Judgment
Sense
Distance
Give
Given
Clear
Head
Years
Role
View
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