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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
Mal Peet
Book
Money
Spending
Write
Had
Taking
Because
Years
Won
Prizes
Being
After
Then
Found
Keeper
Publisher
Second
Rejected
Kept
Third
I had some different positions. At first, I was a forward, and then, step by step, I kept moving back, and now I'm here at the goal. This was my way.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen
First
Positions
Back
Way
Some
Had
Step
Goal
Different
Moving
Then
Forward
Now
Here
Kept
I only learned about Darger a couple years ago, when I kept seeing his name in reference to my artwork, so I looked him up. I wouldn't consider him an influence because I'd already established my current style before learning about him, but I enjoy his work a lot.
Marcel Dzama
Work
Learning
Style
Before
Enjoy
Consider
Seeing
About
Only
Name
Looked
Couple
Couple Years
Him
Learned
Because
His
Years
Reference
Years Ago
Lot
Up
Current
Established
Artwork
Influence
Kept
Not having alcohol has kept the weight off around my waist; my skin feels so much better, and I am sleeping really well.
Marie Helvin
Better
Skin
Alcohol
Sleeping
Having
Weight
Feels
Well
Around
Am
Waist
Off
Much
Really
Kept
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
Marilyn French
You
Progress
Black
Out
Because
Were
Kept
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
Marilynne Robinson
Education
Me
Writing
Despair
Those
Has-Been
Direction
Most
Nonfiction
Been
Years
Even
Serious
Kept
I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.
Mariska Hargitay
Father
Enough
Said
Quit
Going
Just
Who
Lucky
Kept
I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.
Marissa Mayer
Needs
Change
Internet
Think
Having
Somewhat
Generational
Generations
New
Terms
Access
Always
Private
Up
Personal
Personal Information
Where
Different
Information
View
Different View
Grown
Grown-Up
Kept
I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.
Mark Haddon
Life
Good
You
Thought
My Life
Think
Too
Despite
Spend
Everything
Evidence
Draw
Constant
About
Head
Feel
Like
Well
Learn
Understand
Always
How
Contrary
Trying
Just
Whereas
Anything
Process
Really
Works
Eventually
Kept
When you go to our political system, I feel like it's intentionally kept in the last century. In every other facet of life, we turn to social media for instant response time, complete transparency.
Mark Pincus
Life
Time
You
Political
Social Media
Every
Other
Complete
Our
System
Response
Facet
Instant
Feel
Like
Go
Political System
Intentionally
Social
Turn
Century
Transparency
Media
Last
Last Century
Kept
I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip, there's always one sitting around. And if it sits around for a day, then it'll stop working. And then you have to reset the time and date, which is annoying.
Mark Teixeira
Time
Day
You
Wound
Trip
Date
Take
Annoying
Around
Always
Lot
Sitting
Stop
Which
Them
Then
Working
Watches
Kept
Two
Need
I don't think I could have just kept writing the 'Richard Jury' books. It wasn't that I was bored or dissatisfied. I just had to write something else.
Martha Grimes
Writing
Think
Else
Books
Bored
Something
Something Else
Could
Write
Had
Jury
Just
Richard
Kept
Dissatisfied
In Baltimore, I was walking with a friend who was playing at a pub he kept referring to as the Horse. But when I saw the sign 'The Horse You Came In On' - I thought, 'My God.' I had no intention of ever setting a Jury novel in the U.S., but when I saw that, I thought, 'That's it.' The names are very important.
Martha Grimes
God
You
Thought
Important
Setting
Saw
Sign
No Intention
Horse
Had
He
Names
Came
Referring
Baltimore
Friend
Very
Walking
Jury
Intention
Pub
Who
Novel
Ever
Playing
Kept
This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.
Martin Bashir
Life
People
Our
Ratings
Factual
No-One
Almost
Hours
Documentary
Audience
His
Left
Barely
Reason
Fascinating
Whole
Watching
Kept
Two
Programme
When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period.
Martin Evans
Writing
School
Think
Extra
Seven
Date
Football
Instead
New
Period
Learn
Still
Handwriting
Lack
Moved
Soccer
Poor
Skills
Lessons
Playing
Kept
Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.
Martin Henderson
Good
Corruption
Law
Will
Drama
Guessing
Sides
Characters
Unpredictable
About
Guys
Generally
Road
Red
Audience
How
Lines
Provides
Where
Act
Choose
Shows
Each
Cops
Good Guys
Kept
I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.
Martin Parr
Possibilities
Must
Photos
More
Am
Shooting
List
Deciding
Next
Awake
Kept
There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.
Martin Rees
Science
Closed
Doors
Open
Between
Ethical
Should
Grounds
Many
Gap
Actually
Kept
Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.
Martina Navratilova
Myself
Oppression
Signs
Girl
Country
Living
Statues
Some
Russia
Haunting
Remembered
Moscow
Around
Were
Hammer
Very
Walked
Being
Little
Lenin
Far
Little Girl
Then
Communist
Now
Images
Kept
I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.
Marvin Hagler
Best
Respect
Sugar
Ensure
Tried
Division
Ray
Robinson
Tradition
La
Kept
I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Job
College
Thinking
Real
Real Job
Get
Get A Real
Kept
For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
Mary Lou Retton
Beneath
Wrapped
Bag
Bed
Years
Five
Six
Bread
Plastic
Medals
Olympic
Kept
I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
Mary Steenburgen
Work
Me
Everybody
Bad
Couple
Because
Years
Versions
Offering
After
Oscar
Kept
As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.
Matt Bomer
Gay
Man
Out
Understand
Times
Clubs
Hollywood
Certain
Means
Certainly
Marginalized
Kept
People think I got rich out of 'Swan ,but I didn't at all: it's the royalties from 'Oliver' and 'My Fair Lady' that have kept me going.
Matthew Bourne
Me
People
Rich
Think
Out
Fair
Got
Going
Lady
Swan
Oliver
Kept
Royalties
'Dungeons and Dragons' has evolved over the years, and so has the community that played the game. It had a lot of lingering stigma from the anti-'D&D' movement of the '70s and '80s - this kind of idea that 'Dungeons and Dragons' is only played by the lowest of the low basement dwellers - that has kept people from being comfortable talking about it.
Matthew Mercer
Game
People
Community
Evolved
Kind
About
Only
Had
Idea
Over
Talking
Comfortable
Stigma
Years
Lingering
Lot
Dungeons
Movement
Being
Low
Lowest
Basement
Played
Kept
Dragons
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