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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
W. Bruce Cameron
You
Book
Easy
Never
Feels
Because
Go
Off
Author
Decide
Really
Painful
Chopping
Adapt
It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
Walter Becker
Time
Musicians
Finished
Took
About
Point
Pursued
Had
Idea
Beyond
Involving
Practical
Tracking
Were
Years
Off
Very
Forever
Endless
Where
Different
Process
Us
Working
Painful
Album
Two
As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
Warwick Davis
You
People
Older
Our
Wear
Joints
Hips
Lot
Quicker
Than
Get
Height
Average
Painful
Suffer
Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.
Wil S. Hylton
Time
You
Man
Destruction
Will
Mountains
Bittersweet
See
Proof
Cases
Never
Like
Most
Obvious
Private
Escaped
Front
Again
Apart
Acre
Painful
Oriental
Gardens
Vine
Right
I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir
You
Several
More
Said
Still
Friend
Times
Blow
Getting
Painful
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
War
Victory
Cold
Cold War
Costs
Without
America
Social
Painful
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
Zoe Kazan
Love
Playwriting
Find
Theater
Movies
Much
Really
Painful
I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
Zoe Kazan
Love
Me
Experience
Sit
Live
Think
Bad
Something
Well
Go
Going
Whereas
Theater
Movies
Really
Hard
Painful
Actor
Watch
Policing language and even legislating against certain behaviours will only go so far to address the pervasive problem of racial bias. To get at the root cause we must have open, honest and sometimes painful conversations.
John Barnes
Problem
Sometimes
Cause
Language
Will
Address
Must
Only
Open
Bias
Policing
Go
Get
Conversations
Against
Far
Racial
Root
Certain
Pervasive
Painful
Even
Honest
Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.
Monty Don
Beautiful
Food
Smell
Half
Nothing
Sweet
Point
Almost
Like
Most
House
Does
Stop
Being
Being Beautiful
Room
Them
Cut
Should
Painful
Fill
Growing
Peas
No-one tells you about being in episodic television and it ending. No-one tells you how painful it is. How bizarre it is when you've dedicated your life to one character for five years.
Zawe Ashton
Life
Character
You
Ending
Television
Bizarre
Tells
About
No-One
How
Years
Five
Being
Episodic
Your
Dedicated
Painful
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
Louis C. K.
Love
You
Negative
Feelings
About
Parent
Having
Part
Very
Being
Children
Them
Much
Really
Your
Painful
What I love about natural climate solutions is that we should be doing all these things anyway. Instead of making painful choices and deploying miserable means to a desirable end, we can defend ourselves from disaster by enhancing our world of wonders.
George Monbiot
Love
Natural
World
Miserable
Our
Our World
Ourselves
I Love
Solutions
About
Instead
Disaster
Making
Climate
Doing
End
Wonders
Deploying
Anyway
Choices
Should
Means
Painful
Enhancing
Things
Desirable
Defend
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
Uma Thurman
Life
My Life
First
Teen
Everyone
Mine
Spent
Hideous
Adolescence
Weird
Know
Looks
Were
Years
Plain
Convinced
Painful
Fourteen
As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.
Brian O'Driscoll
You
Hurt
Become
Older
Definitely
More
Get
Painful
Defeats
When I was going through all the divorce things, that was really hard to discuss, because nobody wants to talk about their failures. Nobody wants to talk about how painful those kinds of things are.
Anne Murray
Those
Kinds
About
Through
Divorce
Nobody
Failures
Talk
Because
How
Discuss
Going
Wants
Really
Hard
Painful
Things
Gravity Falls' was a labor of love, but like all labor it could be painful at times.
Alex Hirsch
Love
Could
Like
Falls
Labor
Times
Painful
Gravity
When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over fantasy novels was (if painful memory serves) a super-nerdy thing to do.
Ross Douthat
Memory
Song
Fire
Reading
Late
1990s
Martin
Over
George
Ice
Fantasy
Painful
Novels
Serve
Thing
Started
Started Reading
My mother's death was very painful as it occurred over a period of a week. Watching her die was the hardest thing my dad ever went through.
John Carter Cash
Death
Mother
Week
Through
Over
Period
Occurred
Very
Die
The Hardest Thing
Painful
Dad
Ever
Hardest
Her
Hardest Thing
Thing
Watching
Getting slapped in the face with a plastic arm to wake up is not as painful as it might look - probably more humiliating than painful really.
Simone Giertz
Wake Up
Face
Humiliating
More
Arm
Look
Wake
Up
Than
Getting
Might
Really
Painful
Plastic
Slapped
I’m proud of the younger Roland. Very proud of some of the lyrics. They stand up today. I’m cool with it, though some of it is a bit painful.”
Roland Orzabal
Today
Lyrics
Bit
Though
Some
Proud
Up
Very
Younger
Stand
Stand Up
Painful
Cool
The wake up machine was actually pretty painful after some time.
Simone Giertz
Time
Wake Up
Machine
Some
Pretty
Wake
Up
After
Painful
Actually
When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.
KT Tunstall
You
Dangerous
Give
More
Open
Make
Because
How
How Much
Up
Gets
Rewarding
Want
Decide
Much
Really
Painful
Away
Album
People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
Uday Kiran
Work
You
People
Films
Changes
Towards
Period
Behaviour
Your
Painful
Some of the most painful scars: the ones that hurt the most are the scars that can’t be seen.
Unknown
Scars
Painful
Relatable
Sad Relatable
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