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You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope.
Sandra Tsing Loh
Health
You
Women
Book
Every
Flower
Book Store
Section
Dreaded
See
Menopause
More
Head
Instead
Always
Go
Cover
Where
Store
Might
Then
Pertinent
Poppy
Dr
Daisy
Phil
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
Bill Bryson
Life
Myself
Family
Me
You
Writing
World
My Life
Books
Tell
Kind
About
Life Story
Observations
Instinct
Device
Comic
Been
Hang
Autobiographical
Just
Anything
Story
Which
Interest
Really
Use
Pertinent
Largely
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
Shirley Jackson
Work
Myself
Writing
Chronological
Pressed
About
Give
Outline
Only
Facts
Contains
Material
Very
Autobiographical
Which
Dislike
Much
Bare
Pertinent
My training is very specific to my sport, so it's a lot of fast, explosive movements. It's very pertinent to exactly what I do on the football field, which is fast burst in short spaces.
Christian McCaffrey
Training
Field
Exactly
Exactly What
Football
Football Field
Sport
Lot
Very
Short
Movements
Spaces
Which
Burst
Pertinent
Explosive
Fast
Specific
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.
Wynton Marsalis
Day
Musicians
End Of The Day
Try
Become
Stars
Our
Stated
Abandoned
Objectives
Strongly
Never
Counter
Became
Greatest
Aesthetic
Continue
End
Very
Pop
Pertinent
Pop Stars
Many
I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
Elayne Boosler
Funny
Truth
News
Thought
Pure
Elsewhere
Entertaining
Ability
Able
Only
Through
Had
Raw
Make
Comics
Were
Off
Comment
Intelligent
Decade
Truths
Place
Social
Newspapers
Pages
Pertinent
Found
Actual
Last
Last Decade
Pull
I have been writing my blog for several years. Whenever I have written about pertinent subjects, no one has supported them. For instance, the stray dog menace. I cycle in the morning every day, and I am still scared of stray dog attacks.
Mohanlal
Day
Morning
Every Day
Writing
Dog
Every
Several
Scared
Menace
About
Attacks
No-One
Instance
Written
Supported
Am
Still
Blog
Been
Years
Subjects
Whenever
Them
Cycle
Pertinent
Stray
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
Oscar Hijuelos
You
Emotions
Invent
Relevance
Possible
Hopefully
More
Write
Emotional
Factual
Piece
Also
Sort
Nonfiction
Very
Fiction
Whereas
Pack
Pertinent
Bring
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
Charles Edwards
Success
You
Increases
Tell
Invariably
More
Facts
Merchandise
Advertisement
Sell
Pertinent
Included
Chance
Number
I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were not being heard in the '60s, like women and gay people, were being heard in the '70s. Black Civil Rights had also found its foothold, and those ideas were also very pertinent.
Todd Haynes
Gay
Rights
Women
People
Black
Minority
Think
Those
Civil
Civil Rights
Voices
Had
Implemented
Opened
Like
Ideas
Also
Got
Were
Heard
Up
Very
Being
Certain
Pertinent
Many
Found
It's very limited what women who look like me can do on television. You don't often see 'my type' on television unless she's a sidekick - certainly not a three-dimensional series regular who is pertinent to the plot.
Donna Lynne Champlin
Me
You
Women
Type
Sidekick
Unless
Television
Plot
See
Three-Dimensional
Like
Look
She
Limited
Very
Often
Regular
Pertinent
Certainly
Who
Series
Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent.
Monica Ali
Time
Myself
Writing
Thinking
Other
Interviews
Spend
About
Outside
Very
Children
Little
Pertinent
Little Time
Things
I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.
Tom Bergeron
Gossip
Tried
More
Steer
Student
Instead
Toward
Bull
Information
Newspaper
Pertinent
Usual
We conclude that both challenged aspects of EPA's regulations implementing the 2008 ozone standards exceed the agency's authority under the Clean Air Act... Because we find that the EPA's challenged implementation rules exceed the agency's authority under the Clean Air Act, we vacate the pertinent portions of EPA's regulations.
Sri Srinivasan
Air
Rules
Find
Exceed
Both
Clean
Clean Air
Implementation
Implementing
Because
Conclude
Authority
Ozone
EPA
Agency
Act
Aspects
Pertinent
Regulations
Standards
Challenged
Portions
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
Frank Chodorov
Fight
Been
Question
American
Did
Want
Them
Should
Pertinent
Wars
Compelled
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
Aldrich Ames
Never
Had
Terms
Terribly
Been
Spy
Effort
American
Espionage
Human
Pertinent