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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.
Margaret Mahy
Work
Simple
Living
Other
Earn
Late
Seven
About
Writer
Writers
Had
Mainly
Like
Most
Wrote
Course
Years
Very
Often
Decided
Theory
Many
Evenings
Things
Night
I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.
Marisol Nichols
School
Try
Year
Extra
Flunked
Summer
Kicked
Out
High
Pretty
High School
Entire
High Schools
Could
Never
Mainly
Schools
Make
Because
Got
Freshman
Freshman Year
Up
Graduate
Maybe
Just
Different
Much
Night
I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.
Mark Burnett
You
Impossible
Seen
Before
Television
Outdoors
Something
Cable
Mainly
Adventure
Like
Liked
Fresh
Always
Doing
Did
Expedition
Experts
Race
Series
Here
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
Mark Gatiss
Unkind
He
Mainly
Forbidding
Because
Quite
Realise
Worked
Hard
Figure
Dad
Now
Presence
I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.
Martin Freeman
People
Seen
Before
Everyone
Cast
Mainly
Stuff
Got
Nasty
Office
Little
Played
Guetta, in general, what he did for the entire industry, same as Tiesto, same as Daft Punk, they paved the way for us. If Guetta didn't exist, 'Animals' would have never been played on the radio. Because of people like him and Avicii. But mainly Guetta.
Martin Garrix
People
Punk
Animals
Way
Would
Entire
General
Never
He
Mainly
Like
Him
Industry
Because
Been
Exist
Did
Same
Us
Paved
Radio
Daft
Played
After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.
Martin Jacques
Attitude
War
Down
Backward
Neighbours
Restoration
Adopted
Colonial
Mainly
Towards
Most
Looked
Identify
Sought
Continent
West
Years
Itself
Inferior
After
Japan
Asian
Next
I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite.
Mary Berry
Food
Thought
Few
Lunch
Mushrooms
Back
Top
Favourite
Absolute
Delicious
Had
Mainly
Days
Most
Sort
Islands
Years
Years Ago
Canary
Get
Few Things
Different
Holidays
Cook
Cookbook
Now
Things
British
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
Mary Gordon
Good
Mind
Enterprises
Bad
Neither
Moral
Some
Habit
Pointless
Stems
Mainly
Reader
Styles
Nor
False
Fiction
Fictional
Describe
My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
Mary Quant
People
Nice
Market
Restaurant
Favourite
Open
Mainly
August
I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.
Matt Mickiewicz
Work
Me
Age
People
Management
Young
Think
Web
Never
Developing
Mainly
Like
Industry
Because
Felt
Lecturing
Conferences
Stopped
Wanting
Really
Speaking
Universities
What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.
Matt Taibbi
Time
Business
Money
Situation
Politicians
Back
Spend
Once
Those
Favors
Various
Through
Mainly
Over
Sort
Campaign
Campaign Contributions
Contracts
Bunch
Office
Get
Contributions
Where
Hold
Again
Then
Interests
Paying
Whole
Now
Thing
The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.
Matthew Pearl
Time
History
Long
Long Time
Ranked
Prestige
Only
Poetry
Consumers
Mainly
Read
Limited
Narrative
Always
Were
Been
Contradictory
Essay
Literacy
Form
Literate
Newly
Who
Novel
Originally
Here
Below
None of my friends really have Twitter. They mainly all have Facebook. I have Facebook too, but I like Twitter more.
Maude Apatow
Facebook
Twitter
Too
More
Mainly
Like
None
Friends
Really
People mainly talk about the goals in football, so that's why people talk a lot about me, but a team is created with everybody's input.
Mauro Icardi
Me
People
Goals
Everybody
Input
About
Football
Mainly
Talk
Lot
Created
Team
Why
I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.
Michael Dirda
Work
Conversation
People
Will
Reading
Own
Think
Meet
Books
About
My Own
Never
Part
Mainly
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.
Michael Dirda
Solace
Books
Pleasure
See
Mainly
Well
Source
Personal
Them
For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.
Michael Musto
Together
Book
Feeling
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Dates
Could
Pushed
Column
Mainly
Idea
Because
Material
Been
Years
Just
Staple
Publishers
Compilation
It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.
Michael Welch
Free
Mimic
Pretty
Someone
More
He
Mainly
Performance
Freeing
Well
Because
Within
Doing
His
Itself
Just
Anyway
Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.
Mike May
Too
Input
Out
Distracting
Visual
Mainly
Still
Tune
Conversations
I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn't expect this.
Millicent Simmonds
School
Several
Totally
Shakespeare
Mainly
Performance
Comedic
Became
Accidentally
Expect
Roles
Just
Actor
Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.
Moby
Health
Suffering
Better
Vegan
Animals
Environment
Mainly
Like
Involved
Also
Because
Want
I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.
Nacho Figueras
You
Ride
Will
Right Place
Say
Born
Hawaii
Horses
Pursue
Argentina
Mainly
Most
Likely
Sport
Always
Surf
Austria
Any
Polo
Place
Ski
Ride Horses
Play
Right
Career
Chance
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
Naomie Harris
Smile
You
Energy
Cute
Say
Put
Mainly
Lines
Lot
Up
Child
Expectations
Child Actor
Just
Turn
Certain
Your
Actor
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
Nawal El Saadawi
Life
Myself
You
Creative
Doctor
My Life
All My Life
Writer
Mainly
Know
Look
Medical
Most challenging, mainly for me, learning how to bump, learning to trust your body and trust somebody else with your body, when we're learning how to do bodyslams and suplexes and figuring out how to kick somebody right while making sure to protect each other. In the beginning, for me, a forward roll was pretty challenging.
Nia Jax
Me
Learning
Trust
Somebody
Beginning
Other
Else
Kick
Out
Pretty
Mainly
Most
Protect
Sure
How
Making
Bump
Roll
In The Beginning
While
Body
Your
Your Body
Forward
Figuring
Each
Challenging
Right
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