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Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.
Christopher Atkins
Together
Sense
Island
Up
Grew
Special
My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
Christopher Columbus
Possession
Having
Taken
Taking
Without
Island
Pass
Said
Been
Same
Any
May
Desire
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.
Christopher Moore
Love
Friendship
Faith
Loyalty
Me
Responsibility
Sacrifice
Nun
Further
Out
Touched
True
True Meaning
Messiah
Island
Up
Coyote
Ended
Blue
Being
Lamb
Meaning
Meaning Of
Exploration
Started
Phenomenon
My teacher wanted me to do 'Hot Cross Buns,' but all I wanted to learn was 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer.
Clairo
Teacher
Me
Sun
Cross
Hot
Learn
Island
Wanted
I wanted to fold into the 'Hellraiser' narrative something about the guy - the Frenchman Lemarchand - who made the mysterious box, which raises Pinhead. I figured, 'Well, what would have happened to him?' He might well have been taken to Devil's Island, and I thought that would be a pretty cool place to start the movie.
Clive Barker
Thought
Made
Devil
Fold
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
About
Something
Guy
Mysterious
He
Taken
Well
Him
Box
Frenchman
Island
Narrative
Been
Movie
Wanted
Happened
Place
Which
Might
Figured
Who
Cool
Start
Raises
No man is an island, especially not Jughead.
Cole Sprouse
Man
Island
Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.
Colin Jost
Great
You
Struggle
School
Great Things
Go Away
Sense
Enjoy
Think
Appreciating
Back
Kind
About
Angst
Because
Island
Go
Years
Off
Up
Get
Maybe
Anymore
Grew
After
Place
Then
Initially
Away
Eager
Thing
Things
Start
I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in 'Colossus' could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.
Colson Whitehead
Day
Home
Chapter
First
Spring
Other
Summer
Waves
Cities
About
Beaches
Park
Could
New
Ideas
Talk
Island
York
Heat
Any
New York
Transferred
Story
Central
Central Park
Really
Use
I grew up on lovely Staten Island, which is the forgotten borough of New York City.
Craig Mazin
City
New
Island
Up
York
Forgotten
New York
New York City
Grew
Lovely
Which
Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.
Criss Angel
Family
Mother
Long
First
Living
Our
Indeed
Kids
Broom
Magicians
Long Island
Catch
Most
Bug
Island
Audience
Room
Whom
Living Room
Assistant
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.
Criss Angel
Long
Lavish
Long Island
House
Island
Were
Up
Just
Poor
Regular
Growing
Growing Up
I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
D. B. Sweeney
Funny
Strong
Thought
Long
Out
Guy
Long Island
Voiceover
Had
Accent
Because
Island
Up
Very
Ended
Actor
Started
I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
D. B. Sweeney
School
Mother
Long
Lawyer
Restaurants
Long Island
Point
Had
Instead
Courses
Chef
Island
Said
Lot
Rocky
Arts
Golf
Golf Courses
Cooked
Dad
Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella were two equal entities under the Def Island umbrellas.
Damon Dash
Entities
Equal
Island
Were
Jam
Two
I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
Dan Aykroyd
Best
Great
Family
Real Estate
Spent
Bought
Around
Island
Real
Camp
Times
Canada
Office
Estate
Lakes
Boat
Ever
My priority always has and will continue to be the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn who sent me to Congress to represent them. Their interests come before Washington, always.
Dan Donovan
Me
People
Will
Before
Congress
Brooklyn
Come
Island
Always
Priority
Continue
Represent
Sent
Them
Interests
Who
Washington
In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.
Daniel Boulud
Long
Fall
Bass
Summer
Way
Striped
Long Island
Maryland
Never
River
Had
Come
Until
Mostly
Island
Sound
Came
Springtime
Hudson
Off
Up
Crab
America
Tip
Which
Early
Gather
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Daniel Hannan
Bible
Intelligence
Words
Hide
British Museum
Complete
William
Collection
Finest
Shakespeare
Within
Hindu
Contents
Island
Arrived
Cover
Pink
Human
Gold
Human Intelligence
Works
Thing
Designed
Images
British
Museum
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.
Daniel Radcliffe
Mom
Me
Those
Would
Knights
Like
Tales
Know
Read
Robinson
Island
Lot
Up
Where
Romantic
Stories
Loved
Romanticism
Chivalry
Mom And Dad
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Things
Treasure
If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.
Daniela Pestova
Morning
Rest
Thirty
Seven
Location
Exactly
Some
Beach
Until
Island
Noon
Up
Get
Then
Working
Four
Vacation
Set
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.
Danny Glover
You
Change
Caribbean
Threat
Could
Haiti
Global
Know
Global Warming
Because
Island
Climate
Climate Change
Nations
Happen
Happened
Anywhere
Warming
Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city - ours could have been any suburb, anywhere - though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown.
Darin Strauss
Long
Half
Took
Everyone
Though
Ours
City
Shadow
Totally
Seemed
Only
Long Island
Casts
Could
Onto
Hour
Sort
Island
Disconnected
Been
Surprisingly
Traffic
Up
Get
Any
Where
Manhattan
Grew
Anywhere
Suburb
Us
Thin
I never watched 'Harper's Island.'
Dave Foley
Never
Island
Watched
I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.
David A. Siegel
Tree
Bought
Yacht
Island
Even
Palm
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?
David Benioff
Beautiful
You
Book
Better
Reward
Job
Long
Every
Philosophy
Would
Boring
Some
More
Written
Prose
Study
Most
Island
Were
Been
Existential
Than
Stranded
Desert
Desert Island
Ever
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
David Blaine
Guess
Saw
Out
Trick
Magician
Island
How
Doing
Go
Hang
Boardwalk
Rope
Fascinated
Started
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