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I push myself as hard as I can every day so I can achieve my goals and so I feel I have nothing to regret later on after my career.
Max Aaron
Myself
Day
Every Day
Regret
Goals
Achieve
Nothing
Every
Later
Push
Feel
After
Hard
Career
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
Max Hastings
Life
People
School
Later
Rules
System
Get
Going
Far
Who
Play
Playing
I want to be a champion. I want to be a long-reigning featherweight champion. I want to be known in the history books: my name everywhere as a champion. And then, later on in my career, when I start getting good, then I can start doing the exhibition matches for money and stuff.
Max Holloway
Good
History
Champion
Money
Books
Later
Everywhere
Stuff
Name
Known
Matches
Doing
Exhibition
History Books
Getting
Want
Then
Start
Career
I got to fight the greatest-of-all-time in my weight division - not once but twice. I was watching this guy when I was 16 years old when I first started kickboxing. I wanted to fight Aldo in a kickboxing match. A couple years later, I came to MMA and wanted to fight him. 10 years later, I got to fight the man twice.
Max Holloway
Man
Fight
Old
First
Later
Once
Kickboxing
Guy
Weight
Division
Couple
Couple Years
Him
Match
Got
Came
Years
Wanted
Twice
Started
Watching
When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.
Max Walker
Me
Speak
Better
Birmingham
Later
Characters
Able
Particularly
Sort
Box
Verbally
Always
Go
Australia
Commentary
Walker
Than
Conferences
Legendary
Any
Being
Billy
Now
Basically
Night
Number
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
Meg Cabot
You
People
Later
Laugh
Famous
Them
Your
Show
Rejections
Save
My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.
Meg Wolitzer
Good
Day
Strange
Writing
Words
Word
Before
Later
Favorite
Puns
Would
About
Online
Crossword
Writer
Take
Knew
Good Writing
Puzzles
How
Lot
Child
Scrabble
Being
Break
Which
Create
Created
Meant
Strange Things
Connected
Play
Things
Playing
When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.
Melvin Burgess
Teacher
Time
Me
Job
Made
Enthusiasm
Long
Animals
Long Time
Teenager
Books
Later
Collecting
Writer
Had
He
Read
Child
Wanted
Decide
Fantastic
Used
English
Who
English Teacher
Jersey
Founded
Her
Zoo
We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.
Melvyn Bragg
Me
You
Class
People
Lose
Later
Like
House
Lords
Were
Middle
Middle Class
Working
Working-Class
Media
Now
I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.
Meryl Streep
Smoking
Sick
Later
Wrecked
Voice
Like
Liked
Opera
Cheerleader
Became
Boy
Got
Afford
Short
Stopped
Cut
Really
Lessons
Dad
Career
In the 1990s, the Lib Dems won a string of byelections at the expense of struggling Conservative governments. Christchurch, Ribble Valley and Eastbourne went straight back to the Tories at the next general election, but the Lib Dems held their later byelection gains - Eastleigh, Newbury and Romsey - in at least two subsequent general elections.
Michael Ashcroft
Conservative
Election
Lib
Back
Valley
Later
String
Tories
General
General Election
Struggling
Least
Governments
Won
Subsequent
Expense
Gains
Straight
Held
Next
Elections
Two
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
Michael Connelly
News
Journalist
First
Crimes
Later
Killer
About
Beach
Journal
Daytona
Executed
Wrote
Caught
Real
His
Linked
Woods
Story
Body
Who
Serial
Found
I enjoyed writing in school. I don't know that I was all that good at it in school. I worked at it later. I feel comfortable writing now. I enjoy writing now. I suspect, like most college students, I viewed writing then to be more tedious.
Michael Hayden
Good
Writing
School
College
Enjoy
Later
College Students
More
Students
Feel
Like
Know
Most
Comfortable
Suspect
Then
Worked
Viewed
Now
Enjoyed
Tedious
I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good.
Michael Heizer
Good
Me
School
Father
Thought
Finished
Later
Out
High
Would
City
Admitted
High School
Paris
Student
Never
He
Taken
Come
Him
Mexico
Mexico City
Anyway
Straight
Then
Peru
Bolivia
Dad
Lived
The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.
Michael Hirst
Culture
People
Christian
Later
About
Rather
Recordings
Write
Had
Written
Occasional
Traded
Were
Get
Anything
Literate
Themselves
Pagan
Certainly
Who
Monks
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
Michael Moriarty
Life
Education
My Life
Consider
Later
Kind
Something
Vocation
Had
Calling
Came
Theater
Acting
Film
With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle down and get on with it, and a year later I have my book in my hand.
Michael Morpurgo
Book
Editing
Matter
First
Year
Down
Settle
Later
React
How
Year Later
Been
Hand
Very
Get
Sensitive
Then
Lucky
Here
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
Michael Ondaatje
Me
Later
Those
Plot
Tend
Come
Know
Story
Theme
Even
Things
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
Michael Ondaatje
Later
Once
Something
Restructure
Around
Editorial
Discovered
Up
Going
Move
Maybe
Happen
Happens
Story
Clue
Might
Capacity
Much
Things
Set
I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great. When you've done badly, you can't wait for another chance to come.
Michael Owen
Myself
Great
You
Game
Wait
Three
Later
About
Badly
Feel
Days
Come
Well
Judged
Another
Targets
Done
Just
Forgotten
Want
Again
Against
Season
Last
Chance
Last Season
Set
Those who know the sport of swimming understand that the grueling practices that fill a pre-Olympic winter lay the base for any success that might come later in the Games, especially if one has it in mind to swim an astonishing eight events.
Michael Paterniti
Success
Winter
Events
Mind
Swimming
Later
Astonishing
Those
Lay
Come
Know
Sport
Practices
Understand
Any
Eight
Might
Games
Who
Swim
Fill
Base
Grueling
I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work in Phnom Penh, and thus left with her driver and translator early each morning and returned later each night, while I took care of our firstborn son, who was 2 at the time.
Michael Paterniti
Work
Time
Morning
Change
Son
Care
Wife
First
Took
Our
Later
Out
Driver
Had
Primarily
Thus
Returned
Cambodia
Diapers
Left
While
Turned
Translator
Who
Each
Each Morning
Each Night
Her
Early
Night
My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio producer after World War II.
Michael Portillo
War
World
Father
Become
Own
Later
Civil
Civil War
My Own
Going
Refugee
After
Spanish
Producer
Radio
World War
World War II
My girlfriend in eighth grade had been asking her friends when I was going to kiss her. At a dance, my buddy said, 'You better do it now!' I went in for it. I felt like the coolest person on the face of the earth. A week or two later, she broke up with me.
Michael Rady
Me
You
Better
Dance
Face
Kiss
Later
Earth
Broke
Girlfriend
Week
Had
Buddy
Like
She
Felt
Said
Been
Up
Friends
Person
Grade
Going
Eighth
Eighth Grade
Asking
Coolest
Now
Her
Two
In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.
Michelle Malkin
News
Political
Dust
White
White House
Later
Ruled
Eating
Shaped
Outsider
Road
Journalism
House
Boy
How
Male
Left
Decades
Reporters
Pack
Gal
Bus
Exposed
Media
Her
Alaska
Four
The lack of closure in an unsolved case seems to have a sharpening effect on those left behind; the details remain vivid to them even years later, possibly because they've gone over them looking for answers so many times.
Michelle McNamara
Looking
Gone
Later
Those
Possibly
Details
Vivid
Case
Seems
Remain
Sharpening
Over
Because
Answers
Years
Effect
Left
Times
Lack
Behind
Closure
Them
Many
Even
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