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'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.
Jimmy Iovine
Word
Too
Record
Magic
Industry
Misused
Often
I always have to brace myself when I visit my parents. My mom often greets me with a slew of nonconstructive criticisms: 'Jimmy, why is your face so fat? Your clothes look homeless and your long hair makes you look like a girl.' After 30 years of this, my self-image is now a fat homeless lesbian.
Jimmy O. Yang
Myself
Mom
Me
You
Face
Girl
Long
Parents
Hair
Clothes
Lesbian
Jimmy
Visit
Criticisms
Long Hair
Like
Look
Self-Image
Makes
Always
Years
Often
After
Your
Homeless
Now
Why
Fat
A book I often refer to by Naomi Klein is called 'No Is Not Enough'. It's not enough to be against something. You have to actually be for something. A better alternative. For me, that's about transformation.
Jo Swinson
Me
You
Book
Better
Transformation
Enough
About
Something
Klein
Naomi
Alternative
Refer
Often
Against
Actually
There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.
Joachim Frank
Writers
Observation
Very
Often
Subtleties
Meaning
Really
Many
Expressed
When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.
Joan Blades
Experience
Compile
Way
Members
Deliver
Real
Go
Person
Offices
Senator
Often
Representative
Staff
Connection
Petition
I've never thought of it consciously... I say exactly what I think, and very often it's totally politically incorrect. I get, always, chastised for it. So it's not shtick. But I think I'm the one who says, 'The emperor has no clothes.'
Joan Rivers
Thought
Clothes
Think
Say
Says
Exactly
Exactly What
Totally
Never
Emperor
Always
Very
Get
Often
Politically
Politically Incorrect
Who
Incorrect
I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.
Joanna Lumley
Good
Dinner
Big
Breakfast
Tea
Cocktail
Lunch
Enormous
Would
Would-Be
Find
Never
Had
Because
Ready
Snack
Wake
Up
Stomach
Quite
Often
Then
Helps
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.
Joanna Scott
Life
Try
Thanks
Too
Intimate
Secrets
Easier
Admired
Web
Writer
Most
Democratic
Document
Read
Verbal
Private
Reviewers
Square
Than
Often
Autobiographical
Experiences
Fiction
Even
Satirical
Expression
Ever
Play
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.
Joanna Trollope
Dramatic
Visible
Characters
More
Tension
Towns
Because
Always
Often
Stories
Communities
Actions
Villages
Set
I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
Joanna Trollope
Kindness
Home
Great
Welcome
Edge
Some
Generous
Without
Reviews
Huge
Very
Often
Experienced
Either
Which
Social
Much
Suffer
Here
Appreciate
I am often criticised for being rather accessible.
Joanna Trollope
Rather
Accessible
Am
Often
Being
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
Joanne Harris
Work
Satire
Old
Brilliant
Criticism
Enter
Dared
Criticise
Critics
Only
Arena
Days
Wit
Equal
Were
Erudition
Very
Inferior
Person
Often
Literary
Literary Criticism
Literature
Old Days
Required
Measures
Ridicule
Butt
I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.
Joanne Harris
Hate
Sometimes
Wish
Nice
Living
Twitter
Colleagues
See
Touch
More
Could
Contact
Feel
Come
Like
Mostly
Isolated
Friends
Very
Yorkshire
Often
Little
Much
Convinced
Use
Keep
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
Joanne Harris
Music
Writing
Editing
Relax
Listen
Often
Need
As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Memories
Age
Old
Roof
Building
Visits
Find
Architect
Through
Observatory
Maintenance
Leak
Concerned
Him
Partly
Go
Trying
Site
Quite
Often
Where
Crawling
Them
Used
Dad
I feel L.A. is unlike anything I've experienced. It's nice when I can relate to people, but that's not very often. I know they're out there, but I feel that there's a very big pressure here to be seen as being gorgeous and special. I don't think there's the same pressure in Australia.
Jocelyn Moorhouse
People
Gorgeous
Pressure
Seen
Big
Nice
Think
Relate
Unlike
Out
Feel
Know
Australia
Very
Same
Often
Being
Experienced
Anything
Special
Here
I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all of a sudden people start losing their sense of humour or their personalities.
Jodie Comer
People
Losing
Become
Sense
Drama
Dramas
Humour
Born
Costume
Period
Because
Always
Very
Often
Just
Wooden
Just Because
Wanted
Personalities
Sudden
Sudden People
Start
How often does one get to have a 20-year hiatus of a character and then come back as an adult?
Jodie Sweetin
Character
Back
Hiatus
Adult
Come
Does
How
Get
Often
Then
You often see lifestyle over substance in L.A. Some rock stars dress up like they're going to play a gig when they're just going to the 7-Eleven store on a Tuesday night.
Joe Bonamassa
You
Stars
Gig
See
Dress
Some
Dress-Up
Lifestyle
Over
Like
Rock
Rock Stars
Up
Going
Often
Tuesday
Tuesday Night
Just
Substance
Store
Play
Night
If I'm soloing, I usually try to start with a theme, which will often stem from the blues.
Joe Bonamassa
Try
Will
Soloing
Stem
Often
Blues
Which
Theme
Start
I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
Joe Dante
Looking
Films
Horror
Tend
Always
Repetitive
Very
Get
Often
Interesting
Scripts
I often stay in Tokyo's Daikanyama neighbourhood. You can go for a peaceful morning run along the Meguro river, and it is particularly incredible during cherry blossom season.
Joe Gebbia
Morning
You
Incredible
Neighbourhood
Run
Stay
River
Along
Particularly
Go
Cherry
Cherry Blossom
Blossom
Often
Tokyo
Peaceful
Season
You look at some of the top teams in the world that have got the best strikers, and they are looking to buy another top striker. But if you have got a top goalkeeper, you are not often looking to buy another goalkeeper.
Joe Hart
Buy
Best
You
World
Looking
Top
Some
Look
Another
Got
Goalkeeper
Often
Teams
I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.
Joe Jamail
Saying
Great
Man
Ego
Great Things
Will
Giant
Critics
Admission
Uncomfortable
Because
Am
Friends
Close
Shock
Close Friends
Gets
Done
Often
Happen
Things
It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come across when I go up to the plate. Muggsy McGraw uses a light stick and Jake Stenzel uses a heavy one, but I'm liable to take any one of the miscellaneous lot that falls in my way.
Joe Kelley
Me
Light
First
Liable
Bat
Way
Kind
No Difference
Take
Instance
Come
Stick
Makes
Go
Falls
Lot
Up
Grab
Any
Often
Difference
Heavy
Across
Uses
Plate
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.
Joe Klein
Result
School
Behavior
Care
Crime
Poverty
Decency
Believe
Out
Take
Take Care
Dropping
Least
Often
Rewarded
Common
Which
Inappropriate
Should
Requires
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