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When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off.
Edward Zwick
Time
Day
Lost
Because
Off
Godfather
Any
Turning
Incapable
Night
I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.
Edward Zwick
People
College
Significant
Mental
Mental Illness
Had
Couple
Known
Off
Who
Illness
Rails
I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.
Edwin Catmull
Failure
Thought
Other
Out
Find
About
Something
Student
Had
Fail
Fairly
Still
Lot
Off
Did
Succeed
Really
Companies
Deep
Why
Rails
Level
Things
When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.
Edwin Catmull
You
Director
Humiliated
Everyone
Project
Responsible
Take
Put
Feel
Knows
Because
Makes
Off
Person
Them
Position
Off the field, Ronaldo was also focusing on everything extensively, such as resting up properly and strengthening his body. After training sessions, he would often work on his free-kicks and then come to me and say, 'Edwin, can you go in goal?'
Edwin van der Sar
Work
Me
You
Training
Resting
Field
Everything
Say
Focusing
Would
Properly
He
Come
Also
Go
His
Goal
Off
Up
Often
After
Then
Body
Strengthening
The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
Ehud Olmert
World
Will
Building
Corner
Extreme
Entire
Entire World
Facing
Remain
Stuck
Take
Steps
Ready
Off
Historic
Junction
Role
Want
Decide
Process
Whether
Which
Them
Cut
Palestinians
Fundamentalism
Necessary
Assist
Wheels come off? Get on with it. Cope. Survive.
Eileen Atkins
Come
Off
Survive
Get
Wheels
Cope
I imagine I'll retire mid-performance. I'll say, 'Sorry, everyone, I can't do this anymore. I must have suddenly aged.' Then I'll walk off. Yes, I'm sure that's how.
Eileen Atkins
Walk
Sorry
Everyone
Say
Must
Retire
Sure
How
Off
Yes
Anymore
Aged
Then
Suddenly
Imagine
Most of our models have just walked in off the streets, although I also find them on countless trips to Europe - particularly Scandinavia. I operate by instinct. It's a process I cannot explain, but the prettiest girl on the block is not always the best model.
Eileen Ford
Best
Girl
Our
Find
Prettiest
Trips
Instinct
Countless
Most
Particularly
Also
Operate
Although
Always
Block
Off
Walked
Model
Models
Just
Cannot
Process
Explain
Them
Europe
Streets
Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.
Eileen Pollack
People
Light
Live
Interview
Elves
Out
Inside
Something
Only
Fact
Attempting
Come
Like
Off
Refrigerator
In Fact
Your
Choose
Who
Figuring
Why
I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga. I never been one of these guys who drives cross-country and knows some one-legged sailor who has a boat parked off some pier with a thousand Russian funk records that he stole from the Red Army in 1972.
El-P
Army
Collection
Thousand
Some
Russian
Guys
Records
Parked
Beat
Never
Drives
Had
He
Red
Knows
Sailor
Been
Off
Huge
Stole
Boat
Who
Funk
Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.
Elaine Chao
Healthy
Year
Lost
Every
Has-Been
Jobs
Some
Rate
Lay
Fail
Simultaneous
New
Economy
Greater
Always
New Jobs
Been
Off
Unemployment
Unemployment Rate
America
Offset
Burst
Low
Created
Workers
Measures
Businesses
Even
Suffer
Nearly
Millions
America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits.
Elaine Chao
Today
Future
Needs
Approach
Deficits
Boost
Future Generations
Federal
Generations
New
New Approach
Economy
Does
Off
America
Doom
Being
Paying
I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
Elayne Boosler
Funny
Truth
News
Thought
Pure
Elsewhere
Entertaining
Ability
Able
Only
Through
Had
Raw
Make
Comics
Were
Off
Comment
Intelligent
Decade
Truths
Place
Social
Newspapers
Pages
Pertinent
Found
Actual
Last
Last Decade
Pull
I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.
Eleanor Catton
Funny
Me
You
Better
Made
Ears
Had
Countless
Cry
Sort
Off
Reviews
Get
Either
Turn
Your
Ever
That line, about half of somebody's supporters being deplorables, was maybe the worst line I've ever heard in politics. You never - even when you're running against a bunch of racists, you never take off against the voters. It was a politics 101 foible.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Politics
You
Somebody
Half
Worst
Running
About
Take
Never
Never Take
Supporters
Voters
Line
Heard
Off
Bunch
Maybe
Being
Against
Racists
Even
Ever
I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.
Eleanor Mondale
Side
Purpose
Lighter
Journalism
Like
Involved
Because
Opinions
Camera
Off
Being
Want
Fun
Keep
Serve
As soon as you make mistakes, or you have an off year, even if it's not your fault as a quarterback... I've always said the quarterback and the head coach always get too much blame when you lose and too much credit when you win.
Eli Manning
You
Blame
Fault
Win
Too Much
Mistakes
Year
Lose
Too
Head
Head Coach
Soon
Make
Said
Always
Quarterback
Off
Get
Much
Coach
Your
Even
Credit
Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'
Eli Pariser
Saying
Great
You
Yourself
People
Job
Way
Say
Telling
Great Job
Rather
Take
Makes
Doing
Off
Than
Story
Interested
Interesting
Should
Things
Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.
Eli Wallach
Money
Somewhere
Films
Ran
Those
Rush
Between
Well
Always
Lot
Off
Did
Any
Getting
Just
Whenever
Movie
In-Between
Low
Hollywood
Then
Play
Funds
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti
Time
Man
Drop
Oppose
Nothing
Add
Lice
Only
He
Like
Dead
Limb
Because
Off
Modern
Modern Man
Modernism
Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.
Elif Batuman
Time
Conversation
World
Slow
Stars
Every
Think
Thinking
Every Time
Our
Earth
Our Lives
About
Magical
Seem
Instant
Also
Tractor
Making
Meteor
Passing
Soundtrack
Off
End
End Of The World
Close
Pizza
Turn
Turn-Off
Internal
Lives
I think it is true that when we're older, we realize the way that people act is... you know, everyone's kind of talking off the cuff, and everyone's, you know, spitballing sometimes.
Elif Batuman
You
People
Sometimes
Older
Think
Everyone
Way
Kind
True
Know
Talking
Off
Realize
Act
Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Property
Our
Emancipation
Shall
Take
Simply
Feet
Cease
Off
Human
Human Beings
Held
Should
Meant
Beings
Henceforth
Treated
Necks
Slaves
If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?
Elijah Wood
You
Heart
Nuts
Would
Beat
Instead
Arm
Like
Go
Off
Going
Cut
Your
I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.
Eliza Coupe
Myself
Writing
Partner
Few
Definitely
London
One-Woman
More
Writer
Written
New
Also
Off
York
New York
Want
Screenplays
Movies
Them
Then
Working
Used
Show
Tom
Based
Two
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