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A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen.
Joshua Cohen
Me
Writing
Own
Everything
Characters
Something
My Own
Fact
Writer
He
Name
Like
Smoke
Felt
Does
Said
Provided
Screen
In Fact
Appears
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.
Joshua Lederberg
Privacy
Personality
Important
Own
Think
Some
My Own
Small
Although
Am
Still
Dosage
Public
Little
Prefer
Public Figure
Figure
Keep
Shy
Denzel had made it apparent that he wanted me to bring my own interpretation of 'Cory'. I was definitely aware of Courtney B. Vance's performance in the original production, as well as that of Chris Chalk, who performed the role onstage with my cast back in 2010.
Jovan Adepo
Me
Made
Own
Interpretation
Back
Definitely
My Own
Cast
Onstage
Had
He
Performance
Performed
Well
Courtney
Denzel
Role
Wanted
Production
Apparent
Who
Original
Chalk
Aware
Chris
Bring
When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I tell people this story, they always end up laughing, and I chuckle about it at my own expense. I was a big fan of American football; I played in high school, and I ended up earning the opportunity to play in college.
Jovan Adepo
People
School
Opportunity
Mind
College
First
Big
Own
Earning
Chuckle
Tell
Laughing
High
High School
About
My Own
Football
Always
Got
Big Fan
End
Up
American
Ended
Going
Expense
Fan
American Football
Story
Professional
Professional Football
Play
Played
Playing
All I wanted to do was come into my own and find out my career path and what I wanted to do with my life - but, at the same time, showing respect to my father and mother and make them proud as well.
Jovan Adepo
Life
Time
Respect
Mother
Path
Father
My Life
Own
Out
Find
My Own
Come
Well
Make
Proud
Same
Same Time
Wanted
Them
Showing
Career
Career Path
I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.
Joyce Banda
Business
Own
Running
My Own
Empowered
Became
Very
Quickly
Politically
I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
Joyce Carol Oates
Life
Failure
Own
Drawn
Constantly
My Own
Feel
Like
Contending
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.
Joyce Carol Oates
Hope
Experience
Listening
Reading
Few
Own
Books
Find
My Own
More
Investigate
How
Sound
Yes
Listen
Quite
Listened
Just
Wanted
Format
Fascinating
If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.
Joyce Carol Oates
Myself
Good
Book
Own
Independent
Out
Objectively
My Own
Disappointing
Make
Reader
Opinion
His
Review
Text
Effort
Committed
Form
Might
Turns
Including
Her
Present
Number
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat.
Joyce Carol Oates
Life
Me
Heart
Own
Think
Valentine
Everyone
Way
My Own
Fact
Cat
New
Particular
Perhaps
Passing
Were
Close
Child
American
York
Closest
New York
In Fact
Upstate
Upstate New York
American Life
Muffin
Who
Novel
Including
Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.
Juan Felipe Herrera
Family
Change
World
Own
Hunger
Borders
My Own
Pushed
Over
Terror
Climate
Climate Change
Happened
Across
Pulled
The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.
Judith Light
Life
Me
Heart
Important
Own
Transformation
Live
Our
My Own
Head
Message
Learn
Important Message
How
Very
Just
I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade.
Judy Blume
God
Me
You
Feelings
Own
Out
My Own
Wrote
Grade
Sixth
Experiences
Right
Margaret
I am an actress - I am paid to verbalize other people's words, not create my own.
Judy Greer
People
Words
Own
Other
My Own
Am
Create
Paid
Actress
I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.
Judy Holliday
Myself
Home
Personality
Sometimes
Somebody
Style
Own
Skin
Every
Else
Approach
My Own
Having
Feel
Nobody
Accomplished
Left
Get
Trying
Eliminate
I can hold space for people who think I'm a nut job. It's cool. But I know from my own experience what I experienced. I know what I learned. I know what I saw. I know what I heard.
Julia Butterfly Hill
Experience
People
Space
Job
Own
Think
Nut
Saw
My Own
Know
Learned
Heard
Experienced
Hold
Who
Cool
I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it might have gone. I hope it hasn't for me. I think what I do is, I just... I just try to plough my own furrow, in a way.
Julia Davis
Hope
Time
Me
You
People
Comedy
Try
Own
Gone
Think
Way
Plough
My Own
Were
Just
Realise
Might
Then
Your
My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.
Julia Glass
Life
Wisdom
Art
Sense Of Humor
People
Wonderful
Passion
Humor
Own
Sense
Live
Else
Everyone
Savor
Someone
My Own
Could
Gladly
Had
Julia
Art Form
Child
Anyone
Form
Choose
Original
Each
Whom
Dr
Two
I'm happy that I worked alone on 'Tragedy,' but it's obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I could do on my own.
Julia Holter
Alone
Happy
Own
Something
My Own
Could
Obvious
Tragedy
Than
Trying
Bigger
Worked
Create
Much
I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing up and never having my foot in one particular world, and just wanting to do my own thing.
Julia Holter
Work
Music
World
Own
Way
My Own
Having
Foot
Never
Particular
Know
Well
How
Traditions
Up
Listened
Just
Wanting
Growing
Growing Up
Thing
The Beatles, even Radiohead, all of my favorite stuff I'd play on the piano. But it was all very secret - for me, for fun. I wasn't going to record myself playing those songs, and it never occurred to me to write a song of my own.
Julia Holter
Myself
Me
Beatles
Song
Own
Secret
Those
Favorite
Record
My Own
Write
Piano
Never
Songs
Stuff
Occurred
Very
Going
Fun
Radiohead
Even
Play
Playing
I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.
Julia Holter
Home
Own
Final
Ways
Similar
My Own
Recordings
Write
Demos
Lots
Very
Themselves
Really
I'm really close to my family, and I really want one of my own. But the wedding, it's not necessary for me.
Julia Restoin Roitfeld
Family
Me
Own
My Own
Wedding
Close
Want
Really
Necessary
I love podcasts! I wish I had my own, although I think there are already too many podcasts, so I don't know how I would create a new one.
Julia Stiles
Love
Wish
Own
Think
Too
Would
My Own
Had
New
Know
Although
How
New One
Create
Many
My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.
Julian Fellowes
Best
People
Own
Think
Side
Bad
Temper
Horrible
My Own
Never
Feel
Most
Nasty
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Trying
Done
Fiction
Anything
Ashamed
Mean
Belief
I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!
Julian Lennon
Decision
Thought
Own
Record
Record Company
My Own
Had
Always
Regretted
Company
Starting
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