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I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.
Amber Tamblyn
Sense
Think
Had
Advantage
Raised
In 2006, when I had come very close to calling my agent and telling him I needed to take a break, NaNoWriMo was where I found my inspiration again.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Telling
Inspiration
Take
Had
Come
Him
Calling
Very
Close
Where
Break
Again
Agent
Found
Needed
The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.
Amelia Warner
Day
Home
People
Party
Shoes
All Night
TV
TV Series
Wrap
Wearing
Pretty
About
Had
Over
Houses
Got
Been
Green
Midday
Dye
Legs
Clubs
Then
Next
Special
Series
Ridiculous
Four
Night
Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.
Amelie Mauresmo
You
World
Difficult
Our
Way
Our World
About
Had
Tournaments
Because
Court
Go
Yes
Times
Forget
Certain
Forward
Works
Need
Difficult Times
I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.
Ami Bera
Congress
Others
Ran
Dream
Had
Generations
Come
Make
Sure
Because
Same
Want
Chance
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
Aminatta Forna
War
Country
Think
Extraordinary
Would
Would-Be
About
Write
Writer
Had
Ultimately
Want
Happened
We grew up in a nice house in a very middle-class area in Bolton and had a very happy childhood. My mum, Falak, who was also brought over from Pakistan by her parents as a kid, devoted herself to bringing up me and my younger brother and sister, Haroon and Tabinda, and my elder sister Mariyah.
Amir Khan
Me
Happy
Parents
Sister
Nice
Herself
Kid
Brother
Brother And Sister
Brought
Area
Had
Over
House
Also
Devoted
Up
Very
Childhood
Grew
Happy Childhood
Elder
Younger
Younger Brother
Who
Pakistan
Mum
Her
Bringing
I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.
Amiri Baraka
Result
Ideology
Nationalism
Out
Having
Struggled
Marxist
Had
Reach
Dead
Concerned
Came
Nationalist
Ends
As Far As
Far
Certain
Communist
View
Theoretically
Found
We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.
Amiri Baraka
Society
Impact
Had
Understand
Malcolm
American
Should
American Society
Whole
To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.
Amisha Patel
Best
Soul
Age
School
Economics
Engineering
Films
Dancer
Finally
My Soul
Join
Had
Also
Make
Always
Been
Years
Won
Five
Graduate
Done
Gold
Decided
Biggest
Choice
Act
Award
Chose
Actress
Things
Two
I had auditioned for 'Lagaan.' That's where I met Aamir for the first time. He was a superstar; I was a nobody. Yet, he treated me gently and affectionately. He put me at ease completely.
Amisha Patel
Time
Me
First
Met
Ease
Superstar
Had
He
Put
Nobody
First Time
Gently
Where
Treated
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.
Amit Bhatia
Great
Thought
Father-In-Law
State
Athens
Indian
About
Something
Wrestling
Results
Had
Sport
Always
Discussing
Lack
Representation
Interest
Etc
Inadequate
Should
Event
Satisfactory
Started
Watching
Olympics
Modi has always been very particular about law and order. He believes in fairness and justice, and encouraged us to simply work as per law without fear or favour. His ability to think big and implement it on the ground is exemplary. He had a vision of a bank account for every household.
Amit Shah
Work
Justice
Vision
Law
Fear
Big
Every
Think
Favour
Ability
Law And Order
Per
About
Had
He
Simply
Implement
Particular
Household
Fairness
Exemplary
Without
Always
Been
His
Encouraged
Very
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Order
Us
Ground
Believes
Think Big
Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We've had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead and did it. But I was not qualified as a politician, and I am not going back there again.
Amitabh Bachchan
Family
Me
Relationship
Fight
Election
Long
Politician
Back
Minister
Had
He
Prime
Prime Minister
Qualified
Am
Did
Going
Again
Them
Asked
Gandhi
My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good blend of the East and the West. I guess this has been extremely helpful in making my career and the way I function.
Amitabh Bachchan
Good
Mother
Father
Guess
Way
Background
Extremely
East
Has-Been
Eastern
More
Had
Blend
Making
Came
Been
West
Very
Affluent
While
Helpful
Function
Career
Very rarely have I had the opportunity to say lines which I would have said even if I wasn't working in a film.
Amitabh Bachchan
Opportunity
Say
Would
Rarely
Had
Said
Lines
Very
Which
Working
Even
Film
I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.
Amitabh Bachchan
Work
Restrict
Had
Part
Advised
Early
Load
Two
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.
Amitava Kumar
Indian
Magical
Had
Years
Wake
Refuge
Realism
Last
Imagined
You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to contribute to the community or bring about social justice. I had no such high goals.
Amitava Kumar
You
Justice
Goals
Election
Politician
Community
Assume
Ran
High
High Goals
About
Something
Had
Like
Hear
Question
Contribute
Wanting
Social
Ask
Social Justice
Why
Bring
I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.
Amitava Kumar
Become
Year
Fall
Though
Writer
Had
Study
Come
Arrived
Began
Intending
Graduate
After
Literature
Paint
Even
'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God of Small Things.'
Amitava Kumar
God
Small Things
Father
Say
Obedient
Some
Small
Write
Had
Perhaps
Wrote
She
Wanted
Might
Novel
Things
Roy
When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'
Amitava Kumar
Good
Me
You
Old
Wife
Think
Ali
Guest
Way
Muslim
Married
Had
Name
Looked
She
Hindu
Said
Terrorist
Were
Heard
Getting
Oh
Getting Married
Lady
Asked
Who
Mona
Her
In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.
Amitava Kumar
Writing
Relatives
Reading
Those
Pens
No Interest
Parker
Had
Wanted
Interest
Who
Even
Fountain
Early
Early 1990s
For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
Amity Gaige
Life
Me
People
World
Job
College
Before
Several
Telling
Folded
Would
Some
Had
Come
Years
Began
Campus
Just
Stories
Center
Urban
Worked
Reason
Kept
I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That may be an aspect of yourself; it may be an aspect of something that you like, that you don't like. It may be an aspect that you wish you had. Maybe something you admire in another person.
Amor Towles
Work
You
Yourself
Invent
Wish
Every
Think
Admire
Some
Something
Individual
Had
Like
Another
Narrative
Person
May
Maybe
Root
Aspect
Who
Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.
Amor Towles
Life
Confidence
Book
Seriously
My Life
Looking
Reading
Books
Month
Say
Those
Only
Through
Had
Attention
Know
Until
Read
Material
Left
Stop
Wanted
Turn
Means
Lived
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