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I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
Jung Chang
Home
Beauty
Past
Furniture
Destroyed
Has-Been
Constant
Reminder
Between
Sharper
Like
How
How Much
Ugliness
Been
Contrast
Than
Modern
China
Chinese
Much
Painful
Nowhere
In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.
Junichiro Koizumi
Suffering
People
Past
Tremendous
Rule
Those
Colonial
Through
Countries
For The People
Particularly
Caused
Nations
In The Past
Japan
Asian
Aggression
Many
Damage
The past isn't going to get you to your goal.
Junior Seau
You
Past
Goal
Get
Going
Your
My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.
Junot Diaz
Hope
Book
Made
First
Past
Sense
Nothing
Damn
Mark
Kind
Would
Fine
Pretty
Had
Wrote
Been
Any
Stories
After
Which
Page
Pages
Cool
Novel
Publishing
Started
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.
Junot Diaz
Me
First
Past
Think
Kid
Ghosts
Composed
About
Entirely
Something
Write
Instead
Abstraction
Identity
Caught
Foremost
Being
Want
Wanted
In The Past
Really
Your
Painful
Lived
Whose
Thing
Utterly
Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that 'many of us have a road that reaches back into our past'. For him, this is the 92 miles of the A303 - as he subtitles his book, the 'Highway to the Sun'.
Justin Cartwright
Book
Journalist
Past
Starts
Assumption
Back
Our
Sun
He
Road
Highway
Him
His
Subtitles
Fort
Us
Miles
Radio
Many
Tom
DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said something similar. DeLillo, of course, has written very long in the past, notably with the 850-page Underworld (1997), and his story has been America.
Justin Cartwright
Long
Past
Books
Later
Has-Been
Similar
Something
Compulsion
Write
He
Written
Longer
Feels
Course
Said
Been
His
Underworld
Years
Very
America
In The Past
Story
Saul
I love food. I'm a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that, but I love eating; I never stop eating.
Justin Lee
Life
Love
Food
Past
Think
Addict
Eating
Something
Never
Never Stop
Like
Pig
Huge
Past Life
Stop
I love having first-time experiences. When you're past the age of 20 or so, there are less and less first-time experiences.
Justine Bateman
Love
You
Age
Past
Having
Experiences
Less
I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
Kaki King
Great
Thoughts
You
Musicians
Feelings
Past
Pain
Followed
Write
Learned
Always
Off
Experiences
Them
Turn
Turn-Off
Turn-On
Your
Lives
Need
I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
Kaley Cuoco
Success
Money
Problems
Made
Past
Guys
Uncomfortable
Had
Know
Involved
Because
How
Very
Any
Being
Want
As Much Money
In The Past
Much
Who
Actor
As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past to remind us that what we believe has always been true - that men and women are somehow static categories, or that men in power has always been the default, or that same-sex love affairs were always taboo - has not always been thus.
Kameron Hurley
Love
Future
Science
Women
Men
Men And Women
Power
Past
Believe
Static
Taboo
About
Somehow
Both
Write
Remind
True
Thus
Categories
Talk
Science Fiction
Always
Affairs
Were
Been
Women Are
Essayist
Same-Sex
Fiction
Fantasy
Us
Novelist
Default
I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.
Kane
Past
Back
Admit
Seems
Like
Look
Couple
Past Couple
Lot
Decades
Blur
I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
Kangana Ranaut
Past
Definitely
Most
Am
Affairs
Anything
Ashamed
Body
Desire
Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
Kara DioGuardi
Me
Past
Stage
Kid
Had
Singer
Got
Yeah
Idol
Lot
Fright
Stage Fright
Happened
Much
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
Kara Walker
Work
History
Events
Illusion
Past
Nothing
Else
About
Point
Simply
Most
Past Events
While the Internet has allowed for some extraordinary progress in creating conversations about diversity, it also allows uninformed comments that one has made in the past to live forever.
Karamo Brown
Progress
Internet
Made
Diversity
Past
Live
Extraordinary
Some
About
Allowed
Also
Comments
Forever
In The Past
While
Conversations
Creating
Uninformed
As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality.
Karan Mahajan
Family
You
Past
Own
Marriages
Find
About
Horror
Only
Brutality
Look
Arranged
Stories
Your
We don't get offered roles because of who we are but because of what we delivered in the past.
Karan Patel
Past
Delivered
Because
Offered
Get
Roles
In The Past
Who
In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.
Karen Armstrong
God
Thoughts
Words
Speak
Made
Past
Christian
Difficult
Muslim
Some
About
Clear
Most
Because
Ultimate
End
Very
Influential
In The Past
Confront
Theologians
Jewish
When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.
Karen Carney
You
People
Disagree
Perception
Past
Got
Hit
Really
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
Karl Jaspers
Alone
Reality
Become
Past
Own
Philosophers
Our
Unless
Comprehensible
Study
Discovered
Questions
Little
Use
Thinker
I hate the past - especially my own past.
Karl Lagerfeld
Hate
Past
Own
My Own
I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
Karolyn Grimes
Me
Past
Drawer
Kind
Totally
Part
Put
Days
Behind
Door
Movie
Little
Really
Shut
Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the world at hand and the world of the past. It's important to keep absorbing the world and keep engaging with it, and often that means not thinking about movies and thinking about other things.
Karyn Kusama
Art
World
Important
Looking
Reading
Past
Thinking
Other
Books
About
Absorb
Know
Reading Books
Always
Hand
Getting
Often
Just
Movies
Means
Engaging
Languages
Paintings
Keep
Things
Watching
We have been reformulating anything that had carmine in the past, and if we can't reformulate, we just throw them out. I can live without a purple eye shadow. It's fine.
Kat Von D
Past
Live
Eye
Out
Fine
Shadow
Purple
Throw
Had
Without
Been
Just
Anything
In The Past
Them
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