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There are a lot of things I might be good at, such as competitive figure skating, window washing from ten stories up, and being an open heart surgeon. I might also make an excellent Kamikaze pilot - except for the fact that I don't want to learn how to fly and have no interest in taking my own life on behalf of Japan.
Jen Kirkman
Life
Good
Heart
Surgeon
Pilot
Fly
Own
Window
No Interest
Ten
My Own
Fact
Excellent
Except
Open
Taking
Also
Make
Learn
How
Lot
Up
Behalf
Being
Want
Stories
Interest
Skating
Japan
Might
Figure
Figure Skating
Washing
Things
Competitive
I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
Jenna Bush
Work
Book
Thinking
Latin
Latin America
Write
Learn
Go
America
UNICEF
Gonna
I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.
Jenna Bush
Home
Me
Latin
Latin America
About
More
Inspired
Students
Countries
Learn
Because
Go
America
Decided
Region
Many
Washington
I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.
Jenna Dewan
Danced
Dancers
Out
Hop
Having
More
Had
Learn
Hip
Hip-Hop
Ballet
Truly
Lot
Quick
Bunch
Jackson
Modern
Any
Done
Behind
Artists
Unfortunately
Janet Jackson
Them
Really
Roots
Professionally
If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I don't always get exposed to in my regular media diet.
Jenna Wortham
Me
Twitter
About
Outside
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
New
Ideas
Learn
Read
Always
Get
Authors
Diet
Artists
Anything
Perspectives
Regular
Exposed
Helps
Media
If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I could secretly live among them and learn their ancient ways, but I couldn't keep that kind of ruse up forever.
Jennifer Armintrout
Water
Live
Secretly
Ways
Sight
Ancient
Kind
Could
Attract
Venture
Learn
Sure
Up
Forever
Michigan
Whales
Them
Might
Bikini
Keep
Among
Belly
I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.
Jennifer Haigh
Writing
Beast
Though
Entirely
Only
Write
Had
Knew
Over
Towers
Baker
Learn
Felt
How
Discovered
Quickly
Different
After
Again
Novel
Believed
We learn about MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Take that same speech and put it in the voice of a woman. Would it be as inspirational? Would it have as much gravitas to it?
Jennifer Hyman
Inspirational
Woman
Dream
Would
About
Voice
Take
Put
Learn
Same
Much
Speech
Television, for me, is great because I love to act, every day. I love to work that muscle. I love to learn, and I love to be able to just do what I love. It's when I'm at my best. So, I love TV for that reason because it's every day.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Work
Love
Best
Day
Great
Me
Every Day
Every
Television
TV
Able
Learn
Because
Just
Act
Reason
Muscle
I learn so much on Twitter all the time, and it would be a shame not to share that with my readers.
Jenny Han
Time
Twitter
Would
Would-Be
Shame
Share
Learn
Readers
Much
We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
Jenny Han
World
Books
TV
Worthy
About
Having
Through
Take
Learn
Story
Movies
Much
With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.
Jenny Zhang
Political
Try
Mysteries
Immediate
Relief
Solutions
Able
Some
Rather
More
Lead
Had
Clear
Ideas
Also
Learn
How
Nonfiction
Answers
Questions
Than
Articulate
Fiction
Interested
Asking
Asking Questions
Communicator
Beliefs
I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.
Jens Lekman
Music
Me
First
Band
Own
Musical
Background
Tricks
Would
My Own
Never
Students
Had
Studied
Stuff
Come
First Grade
Know
Drummer
Learn
Because
Discover
Lot
Up
Grade
Interesting
Rhythms
Teaching
Theory
Who
Things
Started
Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.
Jeremy Heimans
Positive
Technology
Change
People
Communicate
World
Trend
Live
Enormous
Lasting
Positive Change
Way
See
Eat
Potential
Through
Perhaps
Most
Learn
How
How Much
Doing
Encouraging
Revolutionized
Agency
Create
Much
Realizing
Works
Socialize
Actually
If we are going to keep patients safe, then we have to make sure that doctors are able to learn from mistakes.
Jeremy Hunt
Doctors
Mistakes
Able
Safe
Make
Learn
Sure
Going
Patients
Then
Keep
I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.
Jeremy Irvine
Work
Day
You
Every Day
Job
Every
Think
All Day
Something
Compromise
Learn
Known
Always
Friends
Any
Being
Want
Worker
Hard
Hard Worker
Actor
Among
I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in Kansas City. I didn't go there to start my own collection. But I never could get an internship, so finally, I was left with just doing my own show.
Jeremy Scott
Amazing
Own
Finally
Collection
City
Some
My Own
Paris
Could
Never
Absorb
Learn
Enamored
Doing
Go
Ambience
Left
Up
Get
Just
Kansas
Kansas City
Show
Growing
Growing Up
Start
What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.
Jerome Richardson
Best
You
Yourself
Try
Be Yourself
Stars
Further
Those
Fact
Along
Like
Learn
Than
Get
Confident
Realize
Much
Across
Your
Who
Play
Startups are often very undercapitalised, but I found that to be very beneficial because it forces you not to throw money at problems. Instead, you learn all the nuts and bolts of what you're doing and become an expert.
Jerry Greenfield
You
Money
Problems
Become
Startups
Beneficial
Nuts
Throw
Instead
Learn
Forces
Because
Doing
Very
Often
Expert
Found
Bolts
If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.
Jerry Hall
Good
Day
Me
You
Age
Experience
Every Day
Every
Possible
Make
Learn
Quick
Goes
Taught
Anything
I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.
Jerry Hunt
Think
Too
Way
Sloppy
Could
Pianist
Never
Had
Written
Learn
Because
Were
Quite
Wanted
Them
Notes
Ever
Play
Right
Career
There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.
Jerry Rice
Year
Young
Guys
Had
Excuse
Learn
Go
Lot
Going
Young Players
Next
Use
Next Year
Team
Many
Now
Eventually
Right
Players
Here
Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.
Jerry Spinelli
Day
You
Travel
Valentines Day
Year
Valentine
Back
Birthdays
Once
Say
Kids
Out
Fact
Mention
Had
Road
Days
Missing
House
Schools
Learn
Get
Done
Anything
Cut
Grandparents
I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved.
Jesse Andrews
Back
Tooth
Torah
About
Nail
Look
Learn
Read
Around
How
Came
Mitzvah
Lot
Behaved
Want
Hebrew
Bar
Bar Mitzvah
Chagrin
Fought
Portion
I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have a very sophisticated roadmap. But screenwriting required me to learn a higher level of plottiness, and I tried to bring that to 'The Haters.'
Jesse Andrews
Me
Haters
Girl
First
Think
Gave
Plot
Tried
More
Higher
Higher Level
Sophisticated
Learn
Affinity
Very
Dying
Screenwriting
Required
Novel
Level
Earl
Bring
I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.
Jesse Harris
Love
Guitar
First
Young
Neil
Neil Young
Recommend
Songs
Learn
Learned
Were
His
Anyone
Who
Play
Starting
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