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There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.
Bob Newhart
Comedy
Too
Some
Heavy-Handed
Actress
I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
Sam Shepard
Good
Me
People
Think
Bad
Stay
Bad Guy
Guy
More
Between
Stuff
Does
Fences
Just
Heavy-Handed
Interest
Create
Away
Good Guy
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
Joel Salatin
Food
Fear
Will
Our
Move
Heavy-Handed
Biggest
Regulations
Forward
Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
Dana Perino
People
Conservative
Remember
Path
Conservatives
Liberals
Bit
Libertarian
About
Knew
Like
Most
Fairly
Mostly
Around
Least
Were
Up
Very
Quiet
Being
Grew
Heavy-Handed
Held
Views
Who
To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
Lady Gregory
Good
Me
You
Judge
Every
Week
Like
Because
Trade
Yeats
Offer
Taught
Heavy-Handed
Them
Us
Helper
Wholesome
Play
Every Night
Night
Plays
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
Ira Glass
Hate
Dream
Generally
Heavy-Handed
Movies
Storytelling
Shows
Symbolism
Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
Bob Beauprez
Time
Down
Every
Every Time
Rule
Jobs
Security
Fine
Potential
Economic
Colorado
Economic Security
Another
Pass
Revenue
Loses
Heavy-Handed
Washington
There's a clean simplicity to the plotting of 'Sinister,' whether you like it or not. And the scares are deliberate and even heavy-handed in a way. There's not a lot of sophistication or nuance in the plotting and not much restraint in the scares - and that's a part of what makes the movie accessible.
Scott Derrickson
You
Simplicity
Way
Plotting
Scares
Restraint
Deliberate
Clean
Part
Like
Sophistication
Makes
Accessible
Sinister
Lot
Movie
Heavy-Handed
Whether
Much
Even
Nuance
We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.
Deeyah Khan
Democracy
Worldview
Will
Build
Own
Extremists
Must
Arbitrary
Critics
Silencing
Rather
Through
Merits
Alternative
How
Than
Sustainable
Heavy-Handed
Explaining
Using
Mechanisms
Defend
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
Marlene Dumas
You
Suffering
Without
Always
How
Been
Being
Depict
Heavy-Handed
Interested
Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.
Nick Frost
Love
Me
Feeling
Too
Somehow
Never
Had
Football
Contact
Instinct
Perhaps
Always
Got
Left
End
Heavy-Handed
Unfulfilled
Little
Meant
Harder
The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.
John Curran
Pretentious
Worst
Worst Thing
Labeled
Heavy-Handed
Film
Thing
Filmmaker