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The game in T20 cricket moves so fast and guys are always putting you under pressure - you can have plans for the likes of Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell and try to execute them but they can then do the exact opposite of what you expect, especially Maxwell.
Jos Buttler
You
Game
Try
Pressure
Cricket
Lynn
Exact
Exact Opposite
Guys
Putting
Glenn
Execute
Likes
Always
Opposite
Expect
Maxwell
Moves
Them
Then
Plans
Chris
Fast
Talking makes the fight bigger... When the fight is over, everyone goes in opposite sides with money in the pocket. You have to talk trash because that brings money.
Jose Aldo
You
Fight
Money
Everyone
Sides
Pocket
Over
Talk
Talking
Because
Makes
Opposite
Goes
Bigger
Trash
Brings
The diminishing economic role of the United States in the global economy means that global political power will also become more dispersed. The world will become multipolar. By clumsily re-asserting a wish for U.S. dominance, Donald Trump is accelerating the opposite.
Joseph Stiglitz
World
Political
Political Power
Will
Power
Wish
Become
States
Diminishing
More
Economic
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Also
Accelerate
Opposite
Trump
Dominance
Role
Donald
Donald Trump
Means
United
United States
Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.
Joss Whedon
Internet
Sex
Seen
Think
Diffuse
Everybody
Way
Definition
Giant
Locked
Nerd
Some
More
Never
Opposite
Opposite Sex
Labels
Person
Getting
Little
Themselves
Who
Now
Ailes built a Kingdom of Yes. That was his genius. He understood the id of many white conservatives - their sense of constant persecution and victimization; and their existential fears of an America whose racial makeup, sexual mores and gender roles were careening in the opposite direction of the country of their childhood.
Joy Reid
Genius
Gender
Fears
Country
Sense
White
Conservatives
Constant
Sexual
Kingdom
Direction
He
ID
Makeup
Built
Understood
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Were
His
Existential
Persecution
Yes
America
Roles
Childhood
Victimization
Racial
Many
Whose
Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.
Joyce Giraud
Smile
Truth
Me
Lie
People
Try
Some People
Would
Some
Rather
Cry
Make
Makes
Opposite
Than
Them
Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants.
Judy Horacek
Love
Home
People
Strong
Sense
Community
Progressive
Strong Sense
About
Small
Highly
Stereotypical
Educated
Opposite
Years
Dull
Lot
Canberra
Interesting
Public
To Love
Many
Public Servants
Population
Servants
Socially
Image
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
Julia Cameron
Art
Down
Thinking
About
Something
Opposite
Up
Getting
If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.
Julia Davis
Say
Claim
Characters
Tend
Write
Never
Forceful
Sort
Because
Sound
Opposite
Very
Person
Just
Then
Awful
Things
I watch comedies most of the time. That's what I gravitate toward. But I think the kinds of roles people see me in are sort of the opposite of that. I'm not really sure why.
Julia Stiles
Time
Me
People
Think
Kinds
See
Toward
Most
Comedies
Sort
Sure
Opposite
Roles
Really
Why
Gravitate
Watch
I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.
Juliette Lewis
Own
Way
My Own
Only
Beat
Mainstream
Know
Always
Opposite
Been
March
I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.
Justine Bateman
Life
Music
God
Me
Personality
Christ
Thought
My Life
Giving
Wound
Wear
Able
Knees
Over
Concept
Always
Opposite
Up
Going
Listen
Worked
Fortunately
Skirts
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Needed
Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction, making music that's real and fresh. And those cats are getting back to the basics without auto-tune. And a lot of those cats are packing out venues without getting played on the radio!
KRS-One
Music
Cats
Group
Back
Those
Out
Rising
Direction
Venues
Without
Fresh
Making
Real
Still
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Lot
Up
Getting
Going
Artists
Packing
Radio
Many
Using
Even
Growing
Played
Basics
How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
Kapil Sibal
You
Trust
Before
Minister
One Thing
Exactly
Prime
Prime Minister
Does
Said
How
Opposite
After
Elections
Who
Thing
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
Karen Thompson Walker
Myself
Experience
Book
Publish
Nine
Would
No-One
Likelihood
Editor
Opposite
Years
Familiar
Want
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
Karl Abraham
Will
Oppose
Others
Unknown
Way
Circumstances
Easily
Seduction
Follow
Temptation
Observed
Invitation
React
Him
Another
Opposite
Yield
Child
Person
Same
Any
Children
Whereas
Anyone
Psychology
Interested
Who
Hardly
Resist
Resistance
My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
Karl Ove Knausgard
Writing
Free
Seven
Minimalist
Bad
More
More And More
Scene
Write
Poured
Had
Wrote
Became
Revelation
Opposite
Years
End
Did
What If
Eight
After
In The End
Sentence
Then
Hardly
Started
Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
Kate Flannery
Good
Gone
Nice
Every
Once
Way
Out
Look
Obviously
Always
Opposite
Get
Going
While
Career
I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
Kate McKinnon
Skin
Enough
Horrors
Does
Opposite
Wonders
Sleep
Despite Obama's claim that pro-Second Amendment groups want less gun safety, the opposite is true.
Katie Pavlich
Safety
Gun
Despite
Claim
Obama
True
Opposite
Amendment
Want
Less
Groups
I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.
Kaya Scodelario
Dyslexic
Girl
Single
Incredibly
Immigrant
Kind
Insecure
Parent
Had
Ideal
Single Parent
Opposite
Bullied
Child
Cool
Thing
Shy
The strange thing about being an actor is it's almost a little dangerous to invest in an idea. I think once you invest in the idea of where someone is going, then you're not fully open to being able to play the opposite of that if that's what the character is going to do.
Keiko Agena
Character
You
Strange
Dangerous
Think
Once
Able
About
Someone
Invest
Open
Almost
Idea
Opposite
Going
Being
Where
Little
Then
Strange Thing
Fully
Actor
Play
Thing
My first reaction to being pigeonholed or pushed into certain confines is to be like, 'No, I'm the opposite,' you know? Like, don't put me in a stereotypical black-girl category, because I'm not like that; I'm doing this thing over here.
Kelela
Me
You
First
Pushed
Put
Over
Stereotypical
Like
Category
Know
Reaction
Pigeonholed
Because
Doing
Opposite
Being
Confines
Certain
Thing
Here
I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
Kelley Armstrong
Me
Creative
Book
Year
Worried
Easier
Out
Has-Been
Run
Would
More
Write
True
Come
Ideas
Wrote
Well
Dry
Sure
Always
Opposite
Been
Up
Gets
Eventually
Actually
My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.
Kelly Lynch
Taking
Doing
Opposite
Left
Done
Just
After
Turn
Whole
Each
Film
Based
Career
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
Kelly Wearstler
Luxurious
Complementary
Features
Environment
Opposite
Refinement
Ends
Which
Spectrum
Two
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