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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley
Me
Pride
Big
Books
Those
Recognized
Characters
Pride And Prejudice
Knew
Exciting
Like
Reader
Loved
Literature
Really
Inhabit
Prejudice
I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
Tamara Tunie
Home
Everyone
Born
Knew
Like
Well
Because
Always
Normal
Up
Grew
Raised
Funeral
I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.
Tammy Duckworth
Before
Out
Knew
Missed
Years
Commanding
Get
Want
Deployed
While
Pregnant
Helicopter
Assault
Many
Company
In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
Tamra Davis
Before
Madison
He
Knew
Anyone
Sandler
Worked
Really
Billy
Adam
Adam Sandler
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
Tana French
Book
Chapter
Thought
Before
Down
Proper
Could
Write
Never
Had
Knew
Done
Then
Turning
Next
Acting
Next Thing
Sequence
Thing
One day I woke up, and I felt like I knew I wanted to be an analyst and a broadcaster.
Tara Lipinski
Day
Analyst
Broadcaster
One Day
Knew
Like
Felt
Woke
Up
Wanted
I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
Tara Lynne Barr
Love
Young
Out
Knew
Fell
Doing
Wanted
Theater
Really
Started
Not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. I knew I'd been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn't fall on a Sunday because it's no fun spending your birthday in church.
Tara Westover
Day
Birthday
Strange
Church
Sunday
Year
Fall
Not Knowing
September
Spending
No Fun
Born
Seemed
Never
Had
Picked
Knew
Day One
Knowing
Because
Been
End
Your
Fun
Each
Near
Each Year
I always knew music was gonna be my outlet, I just didn't know when, or how it was gonna happen.
Tay Keith
Music
Outlet
Knew
Know
Always
How
Just
Happen
Gonna
Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
Taylor Sheridan
Water
Finished
Hell
Once
High
Follow
Knew
Up
Wanted
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
Taylor Wilson
Safety
Design
Everybody
Out
Had
Knew
Safe
Passive
After
Nuclear
Set
I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
Ted Lindsay
Heart
Gave
Everything
Wing
Had
Knew
Red
Liked
Chicago
Them
Playing
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
Ted Turner
Negative
Society
Our
Television
Having
Knew
Effect
Even
Started
Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
Ted Turner
Myself
Man
World
Three
Half
Year
To Be Honest
Gave
Signed
Out
Had
Knew
Taking
Over
Period
Shook
Hands
Race
Richest
Richest Man
Away
Honest
Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.
Teddy Sheringham
Time
Great
First
Lost
Able
London
Could
Bothered
No-One
He
Knew
Him
Because
First Time
Said
Years
Person
Get
Eight
Loved
Here
I knew that if I were the best in the world, my reality could change. I was always the person who didn't conform to the idea of 'halfway.'
Terezinha Guilhermina
Best
Change
Reality
World
Could
Knew
Idea
Halfway
Always
Were
Person
Conform
Who
I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.
Terrell Davis
Me
Half
Think
Summer
Week
Knew
Make
Sure
Redskins
Did
Going
Wanted
After
Mike
Last
Last Summer
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.
Terry Pratchett
Time
Good
Science
People
Libraries
Written
Knew
Reader
Science Fiction
Very
Going
Fiction
Who
Keen
Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.
Terry Teachout
Music
Writing
Innovative
Charles
About
Knew
Nobody
Performed
Radically
The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does.
Terry Wogan
Beginning
Has-Been
Never
Knew
Unconventional
Sure
Does
Still
Were
Been
Just
Successful
Works
Why
Early
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little bit lazy.
Terry Wogan
Success
Intelligence
Father
Thought
Bit
Slightly
Lazy
Had
He
Knew
Although
Always
Little
Little Bit
Reasonable
Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
Terry Zwigoff
Myself
Family
People
AIDS
Telling
Visual
Exactly
Exactly What
Able
Knew
Employ
Because
Without
His
Very
Going
Story
Them
Much
Found
Eventually
Filming
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.
Tess Gerritsen
Me
Age
School
Parents
First
Seven
Secure
Would
Would-Be
More
Writer
Knew
Since
Practical
Go
Very
Storyteller
Urged
Far
Profession
Medical
Medical School
'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.
The Weeknd
Me
Song
Year
Before
Every
Right One
Spent
Perfect
Had
Knew
Picking
Nobody
Like
House
Deadlines
Because
Making
Least
Were
Balloons
Versions
Expectations
Different
Them
Special
Right
Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.
Theodore Schultz
People
World
Agriculture
Economics
Matters
Living
Earn
Would
Knew
Know
Most
Being
Poor
Poor People
Much
Really
My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.
Theresa Russell
Man
Mother
Father
Looking
Young
Too
Seven
Married
Born
About
Split
Stepfather
Knew
She
Another
Another Man
Were
Six
Just
Them
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