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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar
Love
Teacher
Great
Me
Writing
School
Analysis
Mine
Critical
High
Introduced
High School
Shakespeare
Poetry
Write
How
Essays
Taught
Then
Skill
Painful
English
English Teacher
Novels
Now
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
Abdullah II of Jordan
Hope
Freedom
Peace
Will
Made
Our
Negotiations
Gifts
Security
Compromises
Priceless
Return
Provide
Children
Them
View
Your
Painful
Many
Why
Why Not
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
Abi Morgan
Writing
Gone
Pain
Incredibly
Toothache
Once
Say
Out
Find
Only
Like
Always
Painful
Play
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
Abi Morgan
Freedom
Women
Writing
Pain
Would
Some
Call
Denied
Very
Privilege
Little
Act
Painful
Basic
Plays
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.
Aimee Bender
Beautiful
Events
Idea
Like
Also
Messy
Dealing
Very
Frightening
Human
Place
Painful
Divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.
Alana Stewart
Beautiful
You
Husband
Out
Easy
Find
Having
More
Never
Divorce
Affair
Years
Than
Model
Younger
Fifteen
Your
Painful
Even
Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Care
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Take
Take Care
Leave
Mexicans
Very
Order
Painful
Thing
Millions
For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.
Alexander Siddig
Me
Make
Normal
Movie
Rhythm
Painful
I've said many times that there only two things to write about: love and death. And when you have children, you remember that the world is full of sharp corners and dangerous things, and suddenly you have these small, soft creatures, which you love in almost painful way.
Alexi Zentner
Love
Death
You
World
Dangerous
Remember
Corners
Way
About
Only
Small
Write
Almost
Sharp
Said
Times
Children
Which
Full
Painful
Many
Suddenly
Creatures
Things
Two
Soft
In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
Alison Owen
Life
Love
Daily
Reality
People
Love Story
Recession
Drama
Everything
OK
Hours
Escape
Going
Want
Transcends
Story
Painful
Daily Life
Two
Humdrum
That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
Andra Day
Song
Queen
Control
Jazz
Sung
Admired
Attack
Attacked
Selection
Had
Sophistication
She
Force
Because
How
Lines
Versatility
Behind
Blues
Loved
Note
Then
Much
Certain
Painful
Washington
Why
Her
I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it.
Andrew Haigh
Love
Me
You
Yourself
Think
Too
Secrets
Tell
Someone
Something
Could
Almost
Most
Because
Understand
Always
How
Still
Close
Articulate
Interesting
Them
Hard
Painful
Fully
Express
Keep
I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.
Andy Serkis
Life
My Life
Hair
Single
Every
Wax
Out
Bruised
Had
Most
Done
Really
Body
Painful
Ever
Thing
Pulled
When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
Ang Lee
Myself
Research
Months
See
Schedule
Through
Like
Couple
Doing
Sitting
Going
Just
Anymore
Process
Full
Painful
Thing
We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies.
Anita Sarkeesian
Change
Entitlement
Slow
Men
Power
Young
Sense
Gamers
Believe
Virtual
Extreme
Heterosexual
Some
More
Cater
Terrified
Witnessing
Continue
Shift
Male
Cultural
Very
Fantasies
Should
Painful
Games
Deep
Ever
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
Anne Michaels
Time
Me
You
Complicated
Three
Difficult
Spend
Hundred
One Thing
About
Reader
Go
Questions
Very
Privilege
Form
Fantastic
Much
Certain
Pages
Painful
Appeals
Novel
Thing
Four
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
Anne Sullivan
Teacher
Everything
Apt
Wills
Both
He
Him
His
Child
Cannot
Processes
Painful
Teaching
I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.
Annette Bening
Resonates
Find
Something
More
More Or Less
Through
Like
Been
Loss
Happened
Happens
Painful
Less
Fascinating
Deeper
Things
A maturing process, and growth, is always painful. You ask any teenager, they will tell you, and it's just like that for the country. We need to grow; we need to evolve.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
You
Will
Country
Teenager
Tell
Evolve
Like
Always
Maturing
Any
Just
Process
Ask
Painful
Grow
Growth
Need
In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.
Austin Clarke
Silence
Mind
Will
Country
State
Our
Feared
Poetry
Boundless
New
Contemplate
Days
Picturesque
Leaves
Materialistic
Loss
Yeats
Irish
Task
Where
Which
Painful
Less
Avoided
Activity
Harder
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart.
Banks
Me
People
Parents
Big
Intrigued
Seeing
Something
Part
Divorced
Between
Fell
Also
Because
Close
Big Part
Dynamics
Apart
Really
Painful
Why
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Good
Good And Evil
Evil
Those
Moral
Struggles
Between
Most
Painful
Lesser
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
Barry Diller
Reality
World
Made
Too
Because
Up
Which
Painful
Reasons
When I first started to learn to run the ropes, that was really painful for me: it's just cable wire wrapped in tape. It bruised my ribs so bad, it hurt to be hugged; it hurt to lay down.
Bayley
Me
Hurt
First
Down
Run
Bad
Wrapped
Bruised
Lay
Wire
Cable
Learn
Tape
Just
Ribs
Really
Ropes
Painful
Started
It's very painful to lose, and it's a very difficult process to go through, especially at a place like UCLA where the standards are very high.
Ben Howland
Lose
Difficult
High
Through
Like
Go
Very
Where
Process
Place
Painful
Standards
No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.
Bernard Lagat
You
Matter
Parents
Saw
Something
Both
Both My Parents
Take
How
Painful
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