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I'm just trying to give the best human expression that I can to any particular genre, which could be comedy, could be drama, could be horror, could be thriller.
David Harbour
Best
Comedy
Drama
Give
Horror
Thriller
Could
Particular
Genre
Trying
Any
Human
Just
Which
Expression
I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.
David Henry Hwang
Me
Thought
Hair
Red Hair
Way
Detail
Minor
Having
Never
Had
Knew
Red
Implication
Particular
Like
Occurred
Up
Any
Chinese
Should
Growing
Growing Up
Differentiate
Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become a symbol of the yearning of America in the 1920s.
David Ignatius
Great
History
Sometimes
Light
Become
Great Gatsby
Bay
Unreachable
Particular
Periods
Yearning
Green
America
Green Light
Across
Capture
Images
Symbol
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
David J. Anderson
Myself
Problem
Bird
Made
Field
Luck
Biology
Saw
Solve
Had
Particular
Particular Problem
Islands
Becoming
Scientist
Behavioral
Just
Wanted
Process
While
Working
Assistant
Chance
When you take smaller gambles, no one particular deal can be big enough to have a material adverse effect on the company.
David Lichtenstein
You
Big
Enough
Take
No-One
Smaller
Particular
Adverse
Deal
Material
Big Enough
Effect
Company
I'm definitely going to continue to make films in Scotland, but that doesn't mean it will be exclusively there, and I don't have any particular need to wave a flag.
David MacKenzie
Will
Films
Wave
Definitely
Particular
Make
Continue
Scotland
Flag
Any
Going
Mean
Need
There is this idea of 'north,' and if you're from Michigan and you wandered the Upper Peninsula, you know what it feels like. The sky has a particular vibe, a coldness, stretching into the upper reaches of Canada.
David Means
You
Sky
Stretching
Coldness
Peninsula
Idea
Feels
Particular
Like
Know
Canada
North
Michigan
Upper
Vibe
Wandered
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.
David Mitchell
Me
People
Believe
Say
OK
East
Inscrutable
General
Term
Particular
Like
Message
Very
Get
Often
Just
Being
Japanese
Asian
Asians
Europeans
Expressed
Codes
Expressive
I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.
David Morrissey
Art
Genius
Every
Think
Way
General
Absolute
He
Particular
Massive
Celebrated
Fan
Should
The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.
David Quammen
Living
Virus
Way
Cases
More
Particular
Perhaps
Particular Way
Well
Infection
Human
Transmitting
Humans
Chances
In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.
David Ricardo
Time
Needs
Value
Consideration
Scarcely
Both
Attended
Particular
Periods
Equally
Labour
Same
Intensity
Commodity
Different
Skill
Required
Therefore
Comparative
Comparing
In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time.
David Rittenhouse
Time
Situation
Respective
Given
Small
Points
Put
True
Particular
Know
Until
Balls
Any
Order
Turned
Then
Planet
Each
Round
Axis
Set
It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.
David Walliams
Will
Joke
Become
Every
Danger
Easier
Case
Someone
Bland
Particular
Make
Audience
Always
Offend
Offends
Than
Person
Bigger
Believed
Things
I'm on the road constantly. I'm a nomad. I don't really have a home right now. I don't identify with one place in particular.
Daya
Home
Constantly
Road
Particular
Nomad
Identify
Place
Really
Now
Right
We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.
DeForest Soaries
Voting
Type
Having
Voluntary
Particular
Because
Equipment
Any
Required
Standards
Even
Recall
Basis
I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.
Dean Ambrose
Myself
Try
Pretty
Along
Particular
Make
Go
Up
Person
Any
After
Pattern
Much
Really
There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.
Dean Devlin
Life
Christmas
Entertainment
Life Is Hard
Three
Party
Addicted
Plenty
Feel
Particular
Like
Cheer
Moved
Order
Want
Them
Next
Hard
Moment
Fun
Things
Third
A family film is a very particular and explicit form. Family films typically include adult principles that are moral, but they should be as intelligent, funny, and intriguing as any other film.
Dean Jones
Funny
Family
Films
Other
Intriguing
Moral
Adult
Particular
Principles
Very
Intelligent
Any
Form
Explicit
Should
Include
Film
I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.
Debi Mazar
Work
Detailed
Sloppy
Freak
Wear
Gym
Never
Particular
Look
Retro
Always
Very
Done
Jeans
Even
It can be very hard to know the history of a particular star, but once in a while, we get lucky and find stars with chemical compositions that likely came from in-falling planets.
Debra Fischer
History
Stars
Once
Find
Particular
Know
Likely
Chemical
Came
Very
Get
The History Of
While
Planets
Hard
Lucky
Star
Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.
Dee Dee Myers
Women
World
States
Shape
Points
Particular
Around
Continue
Just
Experiences
View
Actions
United
United States
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
Derek Bailey
Work
People
Free
Way
Ways
Has-Been
Kind
More
Area
Outside
Particular
Particular Way
Stimulating
Been
Times
Improvised
Move
Personally
Working
Who
Found
Playing
Recent
I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.
Derek Bok
Education
Diversity
Higher Education
Important
Think
Enormous
Everything
Once
Define
Those
Higher
Students
Emphasize
Particular
Institutions
Call
Educate
Educational
Very
Roles
Different
Themselves
Many
Right now, I think I have time to be three things, in no particular order: a father, a husband, and a filmmaker. That's why I don't go out - I have no space for it. I feel like one of those main things would suffer.
Derek Cianfrance
Time
Space
Father
Husband
Three
Think
Those
Out
Would
Main
Feel
Particular
Like
Go
Order
Now
Suffer
Why
Right
Things
Filmmaker
Not only was it necessary to get the gorillas accustomed to the bluejeaned creature who had become a part of their daily lives, it was also very necessary for me to know and recognize the particular animals of each group as the amazing individuals they were.
Dian Fossey
Daily
Me
Amazing
Animals
Become
Group
Recognize
Only
Had
Part
Individuals
Particular
Know
Also
Were
Very
Get
Accustomed
Who
Each
Creature
Lives
Daily Lives
Necessary
If you're going to write time travel stories, you have to sort of figure out how does time travel work in this particular universe that I'm dealing with.
Diana Gabaldon
Work
Time
You
Travel
Universe
Out
Write
Particular
Sort
Dealing
Does
How
Time Travel
Going
Stories
Figure
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