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I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.
Dick Van Dyke
Writing
Van
Writers
Had
Particular
Like
Looked
Because
Said
Got
Lot
Dyke
Show
Who
Fun
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Creative
Genius
Single
Thinking
Way
Drawn
Possible
Follow
Composer
Only
Could
Particular
Sing
Him
Concerts
Audience
Always
Gradually
Which
Creative Genius
Works
Why
The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.
Dinaw Mengestu
Politics
Decision
Journalist
First
About
Fact
Invested
Write
Particular
Course
Always
Inevitably
Been
Handful
Role
Africa
African
Conflicts
Novel
Deeply
Played
Most actresses have multiple commitments, from films to endorsements, that require us to maintain a particular look over a long period. Hence, there is never an opportunity to experiment with hair, so we just settle for a neutral look that we can work with across projects.
Disha Patani
Work
Opportunity
Long
Hair
Experiment
Films
Settle
Projects
Long Period
Neutral
Never
Maintain
Over
Particular
Look
Most
Period
Commitments
Just
Us
Require
Across
Multiple
Hence
Actress
Everybody has their own style. I'm very particular in what I like, and I try to keep it that way. I always have big appreciation for other people's styles, and I love seeing how other people dress themselves through their own influences.
Divock Origi
Love
Appreciation
People
Try
Big
Style
Own
Other
Everybody
Way
Dress
Seeing
Through
Particular
Like
Styles
Always
How
Very
Influences
Themselves
Keep
Our fashion is for everyone and, throughout the years, we have had the possibility of working with the world's most beautiful and charming women and men. There is no person in particular who we would like to work with that we haven't already worked with.
Domenico Dolce
Work
Beautiful
Fashion
Women
World
Most Beautiful
Men
Everyone
Our
Possibility
Would
Charming
Throughout
Had
Particular
Like
Most
Years
Women And Men
Person
Worked
Working
Who
I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.
Domenico Dolce
Love
Art
Particular
Well
Lot
Paintings
It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
Donald Johanson
Change
Interpretation
Our
Minds
Ourselves
Particular
Very
Committed
Us
Hard
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.
Donald Judd
You
Experience
Think
Immediacy
Kind
Between
Particular
Particular Kind
Involving
Certain
Moment
I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.
Donald Sinden
Good
Particular
Know
Audience
Forgetting
Any
Who
Play
Need
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
Donna Tartt
Love
Alive
Characters
Minor
Particular
Most
Tradition
Dickens
Where
Even
Twitching
For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.
Donnie Yen
Me
Whoa
Feel
Particular
Like
Always
Audiences
Been
Itself
Shocking
Movement
Whether
Forte
Explosive
Sequence
Moments
Whole
I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion.
Donovan
Love
Death
Marriage
Song
Love Songs
Every
Enormous
Meeting
Pretty
About
Mystical
Songs
Particular
Occasion
Got
Leaving
Condition
Wonder
Children
Epic
Much
Amount
Humankind
My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres.
Donovan
Music
Space
Way
Background
Those
Never
Particular
Genres
Rock
Always
Been
Any
Quite
Straight
Pop
Hard
Hard Rock
Popular
Unique
Popular Music
I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his greatest 'Follies' of all - not because I was in the show, but because of the great cast and memorable music.
Doris Eaton Travis
Music
Great
Me
Memorable
Follies
Thrilled
Cast
Particular
Himself
Because
Greatest
Hired
His
Show
I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.
Dorothy Denning
Carefully
Other
Ramifications
Our
Possible
Recommendation
Data
Particular
Look
Making
Than
Options
Decisions
Much
Hard
Base
Need
We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
Douglas Bader
Enemy
Looking
Down
Aircraft
Flying
Seemed
Particular
Also
Around
Were
Up
Up And Down
Which
Coast
Near
Cohesion
The diversity of content is now offered from streaming and downloading, so young people are really not going to theaters because they don't see any particular benefit.
Douglas Trumbull
People
Diversity
Young
Benefit
See
Particular
Content
Because
Offered
Any
Going
Theaters
Young People
Really
Downloading
Now
Streaming
For breakfast, I usually have a slice of bread with some homemade jam made from fruit from the garden; the type of jam depends on what particular fruit is being harvested. I learned how to make it from my mother.
Dries van Noten
Fruit
Garden
Mother
Made
Breakfast
Type
Slice
Some
Particular
Make
Learned
How
Depends
Being
Jam
Bread
Homemade
I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.
Duane G. Carey
Time
Good
Impossible
Good Time
Field
High
Would
Seemed
Could
Almost
Particular
Reach
Still
Goal
Very
Exploration
Even
Satisfying
Career
One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.
Duncan Jones
Love
You
Hero
Heroes
Think
Sides
Signature
One Of The Things
About
Take
Put
Particular
Come
Most
Blizzard
Unexpected
Whenever
Warcraft
Places
Games
Unique
Play
Things
Twist
Player
I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.
Duncan Jones
Time
Me
Rain
People
Try
Whatever
Every
Way
Flying
See
Guy
Head
Particular
Make
Does
Just
Depends
Anything
Script
Really
Interests
Working
Doves
Who
Film
So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.
Dusty Baker
Time
Me
You
Eyes
Problem
Every
Responsible
About
Something
Area
Open
Particular
Know
Department
Manage
Micro
Gets
Any
Want
Them
Then
Means
Need
By The Time
A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
E. L. Doctorow
Work
Time
You
Sense
Framework
Faulkner
Particular
Period
Principle
Geography
Provides
Did
Same
Dwell
Fiction
Place
Much
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
E. T. Bell
Doubt
Indeed
Degenerate
No Doubt
Pretty
Silly
General
Generalities
Pursuit
Particular
Quest
Austere
Very
Quickly
Any
Vice
Which
Formulas
Incapable
Theorems
Neat
Application
Dad always enjoyed sports, and he decided to join a Guadalajara gym to learn how to box. What he didn't realize was that they didn't teach boxing at that particular gym - they taught 'lucha libre.'
Eddie Guerrero
Sports
Gym
Join
He
Particular
Learn
Box
Boxing
Always
How
Taught
Decided
Realize
Teach
Dad
Enjoyed
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