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It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
Me
Musicians
Generation
Before
Would
Composers
Classical
More
Obvious
Go
Were
Been
Them
Film
Based
It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.
Robert Lepage
Bad
Bad Choices
Share
New
Obvious
Any
Blunders
Choices
Show
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.
Robert Winston
Important
Understanding
Everybody
Increasingly
More
Longer
Genetics
Obvious
Genome
Because
Than
Any
Influence
Conventional
Realised
Which
Much
Function
Actually
Things
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy.
Robin DiAngelo
Reality
Denial
Psychic
Face
Matters
Energy
Society
Other
Tremendous
Segregation
Emotional
Takes
Maintaining
Obvious
Inequity
Denying
Irrational
Forms
Race
Racial
The main reason why it is profitable to establish a firm would seem to be that there is a cost of using the price mechanism. The most obvious cost of 'organizing' production through the price mechanism is that of discovering what the relevant prices are.
Ronald Coase
Relevant
Would
Cost
Seem
Through
Price
Prices
Main
Main Reason
Firm
Most
Obvious
Discovering
Establish
Production
Organizing
Reason
Using
Mechanism
Why
Profitable
I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.
Ronnie Montrose
Time
Good
Me
Management
Fire
Everyone
Open
Like
Obvious
Concerned
Were
Commercially
Going
Graham
While
Successful
Working
Bill
Creatively
Albums
I don't want to be super aggressive, but I think it's an issue that the population of America isn't reflected accurately in a lot of movies. I'm just disappointed that there isn't an Asian leading man or an Asian leading woman. There's an obvious gap that should be filled.
Ross Butler
Man
Woman
Aggressive
Think
Super
Disappointed
Leading
Leading Man
Obvious
Issue
Lot
Reflected
America
Accurately
Just
Want
Movies
Asian
Should
Gap
Filled
Population
So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.
Ruben Blades
Family
Money
Something
Obvious
Became
Because
Without
Left
Miami
Begin
Any
Anything
While
Really
Needed
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.
Rudolf Hilferding
Simple
Society
Must
Moreover
Price
Obvious
Conditions
Commodities
Differ
Formation
Social
Social Conditions
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Production
Based
In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Soul
Considerable
Ancestors
Those
Temperament
Physical
Bears
Obvious
Qualities
Him
Within
His
Effect
Very
Person
Traits
Impulses
Which
Connection
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
Samuel Alexander
Thoughts
Memories
Practice
Sense
Related
Immediately
More
Fact
Come
Obvious
Practical
Always
Closely
Any
In Fact
Processes
While
Explicit
Images
Speculation
In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.
Sarah Jeong
Facebook
World
Phone
Internet
Thought
Girl
Late
Late Teens
Teens
Emails
Phone Calls
Like
Institutions
Obvious
Calls
Were
Texts
Etiquette
Her
Things
'A Burglar's Guide to the City' makes disparate connections seem obvious in hindsight, and my worldview is altered a little bit more, and far for the better, as a result. We'll never know, but I suspect Donald Westlake would have enjoyed it - and perhaps been a little unsettled by it, too.
Sarah Weinman
Better
Result
Worldview
Too
Guide
Bit
Would
City
Seem
More
Never
Unsettled
Perhaps
Know
Obvious
Altered
Hindsight
Makes
Been
Donald
Suspect
Burglar
Little
Little Bit
Far
Disparate
Connections
Enjoyed
The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.
Scott Porter
Great
You
Other
Unlike
About
Take
Beats
Lights
Great Thing
Obvious
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Movies
Manipulate
Your
Many
Shows
Thing
Night
Pull
Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.
Scott Shane
You
Business
Risks
Experience
Money
Entrepreneur
Half
Lose
Everyone
Those
Some
Risky
Could
Invested
Fail
Anniversary
New
Obvious
Knows
Trying
Then
Fifth
Your
Businesses
Company
Starting
Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or larger size, New York and Chicago being the most obvious examples.
Scott Turow
Police
Other
Angeles
Examples
Area
Had
Smaller
New
Police Department
Most
Obvious
Operated
Los
Los Angeles
Years
Chicago
Than
Department
York
Departments
New York
Being
Size
Far
Many
Comparable
Larger
I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we're not supposed to be any good.
Serge Schmemann
Saying
Good
Home
Pride
Guess
Something
Rival
Supposed
Obvious
Any
Turf
Really
Team
Unique
Watching
There's no doubt that the Moon is more than a handy night light and a hair restorer for werewolves. It's responsible for the substantial amplitude of earthly ocean tides. These are of obvious influence if you're a geoduck, a type of clam that people dig up at low tide.
Seth Shostak
You
People
Light
Moon
Hair
Ocean
Doubt
Dig
Type
Earthly
Responsible
No Doubt
More
Obvious
Tide
Tides
Werewolves
Up
Than
Handy
Substantial
Influence
Low
Night
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.
Seth Shostak
Technology
Science
Will
Seems
Along
Obvious
Sort
Blunder
Manipulate
Radio
Pair
Eventually
Species
Speech
Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me.
Sharon Tate
Me
Sex
Eye Of The Beholder
Whatever
Think
Eye
Sex Appeal
Sexiness
Absolutely
Obvious
Least
Beholder
Might
Should
Appeal
It was never like I had to go, 'I am gay.' Slowly, almost by osmosis, by the way I was behaving, it became obvious and accepted.
Shura
Gay
Way
Slowly
Never
Had
Almost
Like
Obvious
Became
Accepted
Am
Go
Behaving
People are lazy when they cast. It's natural to think of the most obvious fit to your character.
Soni Razdan
Character
Natural
People
Think
Cast
Lazy
Most
Obvious
Fit
Your
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.
Sophie Hannah
You
Better
Looking
Accident
Too
Hunch
Telephone
Characters
Find
Some
Somehow
Seems
Deliberate
More
Superstitious
Writers
Had
Bound
Names
Look
Obvious
Course
Always
Go
Going
Them
Satisfying
Overall, I adhere to the one guiding rule any author writing historical fiction should follow: whatever you describe has to be possible. It may not be common, obvious, or even all that probable, but it absolutely has to be possible.
Stephanie Laurens
You
Writing
Whatever
Rule
Guiding
Adhere
Possible
Follow
Absolutely
Overall
Obvious
Historical
Historical Fiction
Author
Any
May
Probable
Common
Fiction
Should
Describe
Even
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
Stephen Harper
Work
Government
Strong
Long
First
Building
Think
Worst
Destroys
Case
Scenario
Invest
Unstable
Look
Obvious
First Of All
Very
Canada
Place
Taxes
Image
Raises
Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.
Stephen Hunter
Time
Sometimes
Try
First
Half
Difficult
Carefully
Mine
Defining
Critic
TV
TV Commercials
Give
Given
Tendency
Since
Obvious
Read
Without
Editors
Issues
Been
Discuss
Commercials
Same
Same Time
Movie
Anything
Them
Aware
Away
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