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I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job.
John Knoll
Best
Job
Particular
Another
Trying
Any
Just
Use
Loyalties
Technique
It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.
John Krasinski
Day
History
You
Every Day
School
End Of The Day
Long
Situation
Living
Every
Think
Intimidated
Definitely
High
High School
Someone
Long History
Through
Had
Particular
End
Whether
Shot
Each
Ever
Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.
John Lasseter
You
Met
Every
Everything
Furniture
Backs
Has-Been
Detail
Fine
See
Scene
Feel
Particular
Polish
Makers
Still
Been
Pixar
Little
Who
Even
Compared
I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
John McLaughlin
Music
Goals
Mind
Job
Recording
Way
Give
Main
Particular
Making
Goal
Itself
Any
Form
Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.
John McWhorter
Natural
People
Speak
Black
Men
Young
Difficult
Other
Though
System
Running
Something
Spoken
Particular
Understand
Dialect
Issue
Been
Itself
Very
Quickly
Which
Young Men
Really
English
Who
Even
Each
Raised
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
John Metcalf
Together
Become
Lust
Gathering
Approach
Press
Something
Excellence
Writers
Particular
Aesthetic
Committed
Movement
Wanted
Literature
Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.
John Ortberg
Sometimes
Will
Somebody
Superior
Spirituality
Become
Assume
Others
Churches
Seek
Recruit
No-One
Vein
Particular
Like
Because
Discover
Wants
Them
Certain
Found
Actually
Techniques
Position
Australians love to pump you up when you're nobody. Then, when you start to put your head above water and say, 'Well, actually, I am a bit different, I am an individual and I do have a particular talent', or whatever, they want to go after you. But the good news is that once you reach a certain level, I think they start to leave you alone.
John Polson
Love
Alone
Good
News
You
Water
Good News
Whatever
Think
Pump
Once
Say
Bit
Above
Individual
Put
Head
Nobody
Talent
Particular
Reach
Well
Am
Leave
Go
Up
Australians
Different
Want
After
Then
Certain
Certain Level
Your
Actually
Level
Start
My main argument against staying in the E.U. has been the poor economic record of the E.U. as a whole and the eurozone in particular. The performance has got worse the more the E.U. has developed joint policies and central controls.
John Redwood
Argument
Worse
Has-Been
Record
Staying
More
Economic
Joint
Main
Developed
Performance
Particular
Policies
Got
Been
Controls
Central
Against
Poor
Whole
Eurozone
The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.
John Scalzi
Way
Outline
Write
Part
Along
Particular
Discovering
Going
Just
Happening
Story
Fun
Novels
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
John Shelby Spong
Life
Journey
History
Bible
Perspective
Way
Record
Through
Factual
Particular
Does
Human
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.
John Shelton Reed
People
Black
Confederate
Heritage
Other
Ancestors
Folks
See
Spit
Implication
Particular
Like
Because
Hand
Southerners
Same
Want
Who
Many
Why
Graves
If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.
John Sulston
You
World
Monopoly
Say
Gene
Purpose
Particular
Discovery
Patent
Patents
Human
Just
Just One
Which
Then
Creating
Unique
Even
Function
Actually
'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.
John Tiffany
Music
Theatre
Black
Kind
About
Taken
Particular
Particular Kind
Very
Scottish
Movement
Canon
Place
Fantastic
Whole
Event
Watch
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
John Trudell
Will
Poet
Beginning
Society
Our
Voice
Particular
Because
Tradition
Heard
Histories
Oral
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
John Updike
Walls
Doors
Right One
Leads
Particular
Like
Know
Opens
Because
Within
Narrative
Been
False
Exit
Author
Door
While
Room
Us
Choices
Apparent
Painted
Many
Whose
Right
Number
The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.
John Zimmerman
Health
Care
Believe
Sector
Eye
Strongly
Particular
Health Care
Bulls
Theme
Really
Aging
Population
Right
Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.
Johnny Depp
Me
Perspective
Gave
Guy
No Reason
Almost
Particular
Reason
Who
Start
You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.
Jon Fishman
You
People
Few
Down
Marley
Someone
Throat
Particular
Message
Without
Opinions
Spread
Effectively
Very
Few People
Any
Bob
Bob Marley
I love Twitter in particular because it allows me to grow and see how people feel about the decisions I make. My followers, they're always pretty honest with me. I love the honesty I get. I also find motivation in it.
Jon Jones
Love
Me
Honesty
People
Twitter
Find
See
Pretty
Followers
About
Feel
Particular
Also
Make
Because
Always
How
Motivation
Get
Decisions
Grow
Honest
Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
People
Think
Must
Something
Wrong
Feel
Particular
Most
Doing
Then
Should
Special
Meditate
When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.
Jon Katz
Love
You
People
Writing
Mirror
Animals
Live
About
Write
Particular
Course
Reveal
Dogs
Reflections
Often
Them
Us
Really
Who
Need
One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
Jonah Goldberg
Me
Crazy
Dangerous
College
Ideology
Think
Way
Kids
One Of The Things
Bad
College Kids
Drove
Particular
Educated
Which
Really
Things
In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.
Jonathan Dee
You
People
Setting
Typical
See
Someone
Particular
She
Make
How
Subculture
Representative
Order
Want
Story
Interesting
Might
Who
Describe
Her
Portray
Bring
Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my food, download them, and call that a blog. That is beyond the pale. The Internet is such a bazaar of self-indulgences that I don't know why that particular one should bug me so much. But it really does.
Jonathan Dee
Food
Me
Internet
Restaurant
Take
Particular
Pictures
Beyond
Know
Bug
Call
Does
Am
Go
Blog
Going
Them
Much
Really
Should
Download
Why
Pale
Here
Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly.
Jonathan Galassi
Me
Big
Bishop
Clarity
Impact
Insistence
Rate
Something
Had
Highly
Particular
Well
Big Impact
Very
Personally
Her
Elizabeth
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