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Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.
Ron Rash
Water
Sometimes
Wait
Wife
Young
Farm
Meet
Though
Characters
Would
See
More
Instance
He
Knew
Toward
Know
Until
Him
Yard
Got
Trusty
Did
Front
Going
Often
Just
Moving
Moving Away
Away
Her
Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice.
Ronald Kessler
Morning
Style
Whatever
Others
Criminals
Distinct
Paper
Pen
Ways
Some
Variations
Structure
Voice
Write
Writer
Writers
Computers
Instance
Particular
Grammar
Sentence
Act
Use
Each
Night
Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.
Ryan Holmes
Facebook
Stream
Social Media
Rarely
Instance
Limitations
Irrelevant
Irresistible
Social
Page
Your
Engineered
Media
When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
Saina Nehwal
People
Cinema
Become
Before
Side
Say
Enter
People Say
Through
Instance
Remind
Leave
Exit
Fame
Celebrity
Begins
Roll
Same
Just
Want
Movie
Them
Flip
Film
Watch
Credits
There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
Sam Abell
Life
Music
Good
Home
Failure
Parents
Our
Sold
Distinct
Ways
Some
Cleaner
Instance
Bought
Sound
Lot
Improved
Cello
Them
Eventually
Expressive
Vacuum
I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
Sam Hunt
Big
White
Side
Strip
Out
Something
Had
Instance
Red
Stuff
Like
Make
Another
Leave
Doing
Up
Just
Different
Wanted
Little
Plain
Video
Cut
Night
If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.
Samuel West
You
Somebody
Before
Stage
Else
Bit
Torch
Carrying
Instance
Weight
Part
Feel
Like
Passing
Been
Done
Staggering
Then
Play
Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.
Seth Shostak
Time
Intelligence
Our
Unless
Bit
Machinery
Says
Out
Cosmic
Percent
More
Only
Instance
Beyond
Existed
Brain
Than
Just
Just A Little Bit
Which
Little
Little Bit
Sapiens
Nearly
Level
Homo
Homo Sapiens
Humans
Last
I've never been one that really won with major-name collaborators. You take, for instance, 'Angel' with Rayvon. 'It Wasn't Me' was with Rikrok. Nobody knew who those guys were.
Shaggy
Me
You
Angel
Collaborators
Those
Guys
Take
Never
Instance
Knew
Nobody
Were
Been
Won
Really
Who
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.
Shirley Chisholm
Time
Legal
Free
Past
Every
Society
Further
Relic
Sexes
About
Physiology
Instance
Generations
Almost
Between
Discrimination
Psychology
Them
Sweep
Views
Beliefs
Away
Founded
Set
I don't believe in pretending to be someone else. I'm what I actually am in real life. For instance, like any normal girl, I fight with my mother. I mean, it is just fine. In fact, I fight daily with my mother.
Shreya Ghoshal
Life
Daily
Fight
Mother
Pretending
Girl
Real Life
Believe
Else
Fine
Someone
Fact
Instance
Like
Am
Real
Normal
Normal Girl
Any
Just
In Fact
Mean
Actually
I'm really freaked out by time. How, for instance, what I did last week is not real in the sense that it's happened. It's just a memory that's filed away in my brain.
Shura
Time
Memory
Sense
Out
Freaked
Week
Instance
How
Real
Brain
Did
Just
Happened
Really
Away
Last
What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
Simon Hoggart
Work
God
Me
Word
Has-Been
Tells
Eat
Abolish
Instance
Puzzled
Limbo
Catholics
Does
Always
How
Been
Them
Flexibility
Who
Meat
Now
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
Slavoj Zizek
Good
You
Old
Focus
Hatred
Say
States
Silent
About
Instance
Annoys
Call
Course
Am
Left
Suspicious
Chinese
Them
Might
Who
United
Why
United States
What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.
Sonny Rollins
Saying
Me
Musicians
Jazz
Think
Respected
Way
Say
About
Fact
Had
Instance
Sort
Go
Years
Discriminatory
May
Controversial
Just
Anything
Jazz Musicians
Europe
Treated
I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.
Stephen Gaghan
Death
Starts
Bit
Charlie
Instance
He
Idea
Know
Well
Because
None
Going
Where
Want
Story
Little
Little Bit
Really
Zero
Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.
Steve Erickson
Memory
Word
Reading
Distance
Evoke
Constantly
Instance
Part
Sonic
Editor
Sound
Been
Author
Hitting
Process
Ponder
Clue
Pause
Then
Chooses
Chosen
Now
Now And Then
Exquisitely
Bell
Button
Image
Filmmaker
In any other context, 'icing' is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus - a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee's raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime.
Steve Rushin
Great
Wonderful
Cake
Word
Bonus
Other
Top
Oath
Deity
Results
Instance
Exciting
Merely
Another
Context
Proverbial
His
Referee
Hand
Wonderful Thing
Any
Hockey
Icing
Swearing
Downtime
Right
Thing
Raising
Right Hand
There are some things that other people just don't want to forgive you for. For instance, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi.
Steven Gaines
You
People
Other
Some
Some Things
Allen
Instance
Forgive
Just
Want
Woody
Woody Allen
Things
It's always good to leave a little space between eating and lying down in bed at the end of the day. The best thing to eat at night in general is protein, fat, and vegetables. For instance, if you're in an Italian restaurant, have chicken piccata with lemon-butter sauce, lots of vegetables, and a big salad. You'll sleep like a baby.
Suzanne Somers
Best
Good
Day
You
Vegetables
End Of The Day
Space
Big
Down
Baby
Lying
Restaurant
Eat
Eating
General
Instance
Between
Like
Protein
Always
Bed
Leave
Salad
Italian
Lots
End
Chicken
Little
Thing
Sauce
Fat
Night
Sleep
New Zealand was such a weird place in the 1980s. For instance, we used to have this commercial in the late 1970s where this guy drives this car and stops outside a corner store. He goes in to buy something, and when he comes out, his car is gone. He's like, 'Huh?' Then a voice says, 'Don't leave your keys in the car.'
Taika Waititi
Buy
Car
Gone
Corner
Late
Keys
Says
Out
Something
Guy
Voice
Outside
Drives
Instance
He
Weird
New
Like
Leave
His
Commercial
Goes
Huh
Stops
Where
Store
New Zealand
Place
Then
Your
Used
Zealand
I don't think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with. That's just basic common sense.
Tarana Burke
Culture
Result
Single
Sense
Every
Think
Consequences
Sexual
Case
Someone
Vary
Fired
Instance
Dealt
Shift
Just
Common
Being
Common Sense
Should
Harassment
Basic
Need
Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
Tariq Ramadan
Freedom
Language
Framework
Define
Laws
Absolute
Instance
Freedom Of Expression
Countries
Exercising
Condemn
Which
Expression
Right
There are many things I love about my job! For instance, as a creative outlet, there's no better way to express myself than through choreography and physical movement.
Tessa Virtue
Love
Myself
Creative
Better
Job
Way
Physical
About
Outlet
Through
Instance
Better Way
Than
Movement
Creative Outlet
Many
Express
Choreography
Things
Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.
Thomas Keller
Day
Great
Man
Will
Black
Judgment
Bass
Say
Fax
Throughout
Instance
Also
Make
Calls
How
Coming
Fish
Fish Man
Depending
Available
Then
Us
Product
Adapt
Technology is in fact one of the most exciting things that's happened to museums today - but one has to be careful about where one uses it. For instance, the Internet provides an incredible opportunity. It is a way for us to reach audiences around the world and further our educational mission.
Thomas P. Campbell
Today
Technology
World
Opportunity
Internet
Incredible
Our
Way
Further
Be Careful
About
Fact
Instance
Exciting
Exciting Things
Mission
Reach
Most
Around
Audiences
Educational
Provides
Where
In Fact
Happened
Us
Uses
Things
Museums
Careful
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