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I'm very much a positive person - I put good energy out there - so I don't feel like anyone would want to do anything nasty to me.
Iskra Lawrence
Positive
Good
Me
Energy
Positive Person
Out
Would
Put
Feel
Like
Nasty
Very
Person
Want
Anyone
Anything
Much
Every agency would mention my hips. I remember looking at the other models and thinking, 'I do not look like these girls.'
Iskra Lawrence
Remember
Girl
Looking
Every
Thinking
Other
Would
Mention
Like
Look
Hips
Models
Agency
I think audiences have always wanted to see women in the movies, but every time a movie like 'Bridesmaids' comes out, everyone says, 'Oh how funny, people do want to see women in the movies.'
Isla Fisher
Funny
Time
Women
People
Every
Think
Every Time
Funny People
Everyone
Says
Out
See
Like
Always
How
Audiences
Oh
Want
Movie
Wanted
Movies
Bridesmaids
I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever.
Isla Fisher
Food
Gym
Like
Because
Go
Junk
Junk Food
Taste
Just
Just Because
Ever
I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.
Islom Karimov
You
People
Kind
Like
Proud
Been
Working
The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.
Ismail Haniyeh
People
World
Will
Free
Community
Living
Aid
Liberals
Siege
See
Free People
Like
Stop
International
International Community
Palestinian
Palestinian People
Received
The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
Ismail Kadare
Great
Freedom
Relation
Chaotic
Tyrant
Absolute
Absolute Freedom
Had
Mythology
Like
Always
Imposed
Tragic
Greeks
Order
Literature
Universal
Songs are special. Songs are like trees. You plant these seeds and watch them grow, and you never know how people are going to respond. That's one of the most beautiful things about music.
Isom Innis
Beautiful
Music
You
People
Most Beautiful
Plant
Trees
Respond
Seeds
About
Never
Songs
Like
Know
Most
Beautiful Things
How
Going
Them
Special
Grow
Things
Watch
On 'Sid & Nancy,' it was originally this atonal kind of beat that you hear in the verses, like an atonal dance track.
Isom Innis
You
Dance
Kind
Beat
Like
Nancy
Track
Hear
Verses
Originally
Growing up playing the drums, I idolised Questlove from an early age. 'Phrenology' was the first Roots record that I ever heard, and that was like my introduction to hip hop.
Isom Innis
Age
First
Hop
Introduction
Record
Like
Drums
Hip
Hip-Hop
Heard
Up
Roots
Growing
Growing Up
Ever
Early
Playing
Early Age
My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.
Israel Horovitz
Wonderful
Films
Says
London
New
Like
Because
York
New York
Agent
Really
If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
Israel Horovitz
Work
People
Comedy
Will
Like
Opera
Soap
Soap Opera
Turn
Rooted
Use
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
Israel Horovitz
You
People
Cute
Focused
Kind
TV
TV And Film
Arcane
Something
Like
Look
Sport
Doing
Theater
Film
It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.
Issa Rae
Knowledge
You
Experience
Writing
Own
Way
Bit
See
Pretty
Horrible
Writer
Wrong
Nobody
Like
Know
Cliche
Knows
Go
Your
Unique
Even
Things
My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.
Issa Rae
Black
First
Realistic
Boom
Easy
Web
About
Like
Diaries
Dorm
Stanford
Series
University
I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'
Issa Rae
Love
Funny
Class
Jokes
People
Clown
Laugh
Would
Find
Class Clown
Students
Like
Make
Were
Being
Loved
To Love
Used
Who
Cool
Set
Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet's Planeteers.
Issa Rae
School
Black
Girl
Young
Carelessly
Our
Would
Easy
Potomac
Maryland
Had
Like
Powerless
Around
Version
Up
Friends
Planet
Coalition
Skip
Captain
Growing
Elementary
Elementary School
Growing Up
Rainbow
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
Issa Rae
Funny
Saying
Hate
Humor
Black
Say
Member
Klan
Feel
Like
Just
With a free afternoon, I'd probably put on a onesie, find something like a really dark, uncomfortable documentary on Netflix, and order pizza with a lot of ranch on the side.
Italia Ricci
Dark
Free
Side
Ranch
Find
Netflix
Something
Uncomfortable
Put
Like
Documentary
Lot
Order
Pizza
Afternoon
Really
I feel like a lot of characters on TV don't have the time to tell that many aspects of a character's story and personality.
Italia Ricci
Time
Character
Personality
Tell
Characters
TV
Feel
Like
Lot
Story
Aspects
Many
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
Italo Calvino
Ugly
Slightest
Immediately
Small
Strut
Dirty
Highly
Like
Although
Am
Ambitious
Flattery
Turkey
Start
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?
Itay Talgam
Music
Nature
You
Generation
Veteran
Example
Creation
Type
Music Industry
See
Composers
Never
Taken
Generations
Docile
Like
Academy
Industry
Provided
Expect
Subversive
Produced
Workers
Act
Stand
Who
Profession
Whole
When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.
Itzhak Perlman
Finished
Sullivan
States
Promise
Finished Product
Talented
Like
Ed Sullivan
Concerto
Sound
Came
Lot
Did
Product
Show
Appeared
United
United States
Played
We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset.
Ivan Glasenberg
Work
People
Chase
Entrepreneurs
Like
Ideas
Look
Call
Want
Them
Us
Who
Asset
The college and university systems, at least, have become like television. There's a bit of this and a bit of that and some compulsory program with its components connected in a way that only a planner could understand.
Ivan Illich
College
Become
Way
Bit
Television
Systems
Components
Some
Only
Compulsory
Could
Like
Understand
Least
Planner
Connected
Program
University
Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.
Ivan Krastev
Ideology
Russia
Fact
Attack
Like
Ideological
Stabilized
Regimes
Them
Really
Means
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