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I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Time
Me
Musicians
Age
Uncle
Keyboards
Machines
More
Through
Computers
Had
Device
Drum
Most
Instruments
Track
Messing
Around
Access
Hip-Hop
Up
Than
Same
Same Time
Grew
Then
Turntable
Electronic
Early
Early Age
I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.
Ali Smith
Alone
Myself
Family
Me
Free
Structure
Could
Had
Knowing
Around
Comforts
Up
Family Structure
Grew
I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite mantra when it comes to motherhood.
Ali Wong
Love
Mom
Motherhood
Enough
Kids
Favourite
Having
Had
Being
Mantra
Suffered
Two
I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!
Ali Wong
Good
Women
Job
Feminism
Think
Our
Worst
Worst Thing
Had
Happened
Used
Ever
Thing
I'm discovering, and I think other mums are discovering too, that when you become a mum, you don't have to change into this frumpy, wholesome role model who is perfect and loses all of your identity. You can still have the same personality you've always had.
Ali Wong
You
Change
Personality
Become
Think
Too
Other
Perfect
Had
Identity
Always
Still
Loses
Discovering
Model
Role
Role Model
Same
Your
Who
Wholesome
Mum
Aside from Joan Rivers and Roseanne, it's hard for me to think of any female comedian who's had kids and has a serious level of fame - like, the level where your mother has heard of them.
Ali Wong
Me
Mother
Think
Joan
Kids
Had
Rivers
Like
Comedian
Female
Heard
Fame
Any
Where
Them
Aside
Your
Hard
Serious
Level
In giving birth, I knew that I would have to take a break after I had a baby; I just didn't know that it would be, like, six weeks long. Taking a six-week break was a very big deal for me. I have never taken that long of a break from stand-up other than my honeymoon, which was 14 days long.
Ali Wong
Me
Long
Giving
Big
Baby
Other
Birth
Honeymoon
Would
Would-Be
Weeks
Take
Never
Had
Taken
Knew
Taking
Days
Like
Know
Deal
Big Deal
Very
Than
Six
Just
After
Break
Which
My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet, not shy, not passive. If he had to fart, he'd do it in the library. He did not care. He was like, 'I don't know these people. I'm uncomfortable, and I need to let it go.'
Ali Wong
Library
Man
People
Care
Uncomfortable
Had
He
Unconventional
Like
Know
Go
Passive
Very
Quiet
American
Did
Asian
Asian-American
Much
Fart
Dad
Shy
Need
There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.
Alice Cooper
Time
Thought
Alice
Alice Cooper
Had
Period
Cooper
What I realised is, watching some old home videos, I've always had a weird accent. It's because I spent a lot of time on film sets. But Australia will always be home... I sound like the Qantas ad, don't I?
Alice Englert
Time
Home
Old
Videos
Will
Sets
Spent
Some
Had
Weird
Like
Accent
Because
Always
Sound
Lot
Australia
Realised
Old Home
Film
Ad
Film Sets
Watching
I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.
Alice Englert
Beautiful
Me
Jokes
Down
Bit
Embarrassing
Laughing
Had
Judged
Felt
Boy
Sitting
Just
Screening
Little
Really
Next
Keep
Creatures
Enjoying
I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents' house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food.
Alice Eve
Food
Home
Family
Relationship
Thought
Parents
Healthy
Group
Ate
Week
Recovering
Foot
Had
Along
House
Because
How
Just
Unhealthy
Meals
Cut
Realized
Really
Activities
Actually
Loads
I think that there have definitely been points when I've had to fight to move my career in a different direction. I think, 2012, I did a few movies that touched on a darker side, and those are movies I'd been wanting to make and stories I'd been wanting to tell for a while. So I think it definitely takes work to move genres.
Alice Eve
Work
Fight
Few
Think
Side
Those
Definitely
Tell
Darker
Touched
Direction
Points
Had
Takes
Make
Genres
Been
Did
Move
Different
Wanting
Stories
While
Movies
Career
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
Alice Hamilton
Me
Impossible
Seen
Believe
Our
Worse
Those
Section
Some
Could
Had
Polish
Foreign
Quarters
Were
Italian
Conditions
Chicago
Irish
Than
Any
Europe
Many
Workshops
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
Education
Fool
More
More Or Less
Had
Am
Been
Wonder
Whether
Should
Less
I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.
Alice Lowe
Cinema
Amazing
Criticism
Characters
Find
Classics
Only
Had
Studied
He
Von
Doing
Exist
Person
Gets
Really
Now
Loads
I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.
Alice Lowe
Quality
Comedy
Kind
Something
Horror
Only
Fact
Had
Liked
Spoof
Sort
Because
Got
Real
Cult
Were
Six
Which
Little
Episodes
Series
Ever
Garth
Thing
I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
Alice McDermott
Work
Day
You
Class
Every Day
Treat
Job
Every
Think
Complain
Background
Had
Nobody
Learned
Protestant
Real
Still
Go
Were
Real Job
Up
Irish
Get
Same
Quite
Middle
Middle Class
Which
Might
Work Ethic
Ethic
Really
Show
Special
Who
Early
I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there.
Alice McDermott
Wonderful
Some
Had
Friends
Experiences
Pittsburgh
I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.
Alice McDermott
Life
Music
School
Listening
Parents
Important
Real Life
Too
Reciting
Characters
City
Poems
Poetry
Had
Part
Attending
New
Days
Well
Real
Were
York
New York
New York City
Loved
Fictional
Them
Believed
Enjoyed
I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.
Alice Merton
Sad
Good
Feel Good
Song
Face
About
Fact
Could
Write
Had
Feel
Around
Upbeat
Moved
Where
Wanted
Much
I had no idea if 'No Roots' was going to work or not.
Alice Merton
Work
No Idea
Had
Idea
Going
Roots
I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.
Alice Merton
Life
Me
Collected
About
Throughout
Had
Sing
Moved
Experiences
Wanted
Things
When I was younger, I always wanted to be either a pianist or a classical singer, and when I discovered songwriting, it was like a new portal had been opened.
Alice Merton
Classical
Pianist
Had
Songwriting
Opened
New
Like
Singer
Always
Been
Discovered
Wanted
Either
Younger
I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.
Alice Merton
You
Young
Think
Had
Touring
Like
Very
Certain
Ever
Image
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
Alice Morse Earle
Life
Health
Science
Christian
Medicine
Astrology
Asunder
Some
Crops
Only
Had
Occult
Still
Governed
His
Trusting
Chiefly
Influences
Which
Century
Cut
Planetary
Wholly
Believed
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