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Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.
Stanley Crouch
Day
Every Day
Writing
Every
Thinking
Definitely
Phrase
About
Something
Written
Head
Like
How
Want
Now
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Stendhal
Me
Woman
Light
Sweet
Think
Gave
Musical
Phrase
Price
Had
Heard
Owe
Newly
Moment
Ever
I'm pan-Latino, or whatever that phrase is. It's not a sexy phrase, but it is a sexy, cool thing. That's how I feel.
Stephanie Beatriz
Whatever
Phrase
Sexy
Feel
How
Cool
Cool Thing
Thing
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.
Stephen Dillane
Character
Hide
Mask
Own
Think
Phrase
Give
Onstage
Attention
Perfectly
Overcomes
Terror
His
Quite
Often
Behind
Just
Which
Convinced
Creating
Means
Standing
Actor
Actually
If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
Steve Allen
War
God
Must
Phrase
Him
Disgust
Holy
The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.
Steve Harvey
Best
Me
Joke
Phrase
Host
Spontaneous
Quick
Very
Just
Moments
I've noticed that some Democrats, who seldom mention their faith or maybe never mention their faith, will seize on to a phrase that Pope Francis may have said, and they want to attach themselves to that agenda. Political opportunists is what they are.
Steve King
Faith
Political
Will
Francis
Phrase
Some
Attach
Mention
Seize
Seldom
Never
Democrats
Said
May
Maybe
Want
Agenda
Themselves
Noticed
Pope
Who
The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.
Steve Rushin
Path
Everything
Phrase
Combine
League
Because
Always
Redundant
Sounds
Reaping
South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'
Sydney Pollack
Home
You
Nice
Bend
Phrase
Town
Know
South
Even
Homesick
I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.
Takashi Murakami
Me
People
Practice
Big
Sympathize
Appropriate
Phrase
More
More People
Feel
Like
Than
America
Japan
Reason
Who
Actually
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
Tavis Smiley
Love
You
Low Expectations
Country
Think
President
One Thing
Phrase
Said
Still
George
Surprise
George Bush
Expectations
The One Thing
Low
Bush
Might
Agree
Thing
Soft
I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
Ted Sarandos
Life
Love
Good
Phrase
Idea
Execution
Always
Oh
Dependent
Anything
Breathing
Good Idea
If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it.
Terence Winter
People
Speak
Sit
Back
Definitely
TV
Phrase
Mentioned
Computer
Like
Aloud
Around
Dialog
Repeat
Hear
Roll
Same
Goes
Front
Just
Either
Interesting
Turn
Whisper
Tongue
One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.
Tina Brown
People
Thinking
Out
Would
Phrase
Invade
Ditch
Prices
Never
Badly
Put
Misled
Like
House
Box
Understood
Dearly
Been
Iraq
May
Decline
Us
Persuaded
Should
Who
Things
The phrase 'dream career' sounds pretty stupid.
Tom Sturridge
Stupid
Dream
Phrase
Pretty
Sounds
Career
There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
Victor LaValle
People
Result
Dig
Type
Television
Correctly
Out
Component
Phrase
Inundated
Seem
Online
Only
Fact
Instance
Advertising
Diagram
Reviews
Up
Times
Trying
Just
Dish
In Fact
Customer
Certain
Figure
Satellite
Services
Need
The phrase 'working mum' makes me nervous.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
Me
Nervous
Phrase
Makes
Working
Mum
'Creative director' is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It's like being a counselor.
Virgil Abloh
Me
Director
Creative
Giving
Phrase
More
Counselor
Like
Ideas
Obviously
Than
Being
Means
A lot of people think the orchestra is playing and the conductor doesn't do very much, but the conductor's the person that gives shape to the music, gets the phrasing, and if he has really fine musicians in solo spots, the question is does he try to help them phrase, or does he let them go?
William Lipscomb
Music
Musicians
People
Try
Think
Solo
Fine
Phrase
Gives
Shape
He
Spots
Does
Go
Question
Lot
Very
Conductor
Person
Gets
Orchestra
Them
Much
Really
Help
Playing
In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
bell hooks
Woman
Culture
Reality
Words
Speak
Black
Synonymous
Those
Possibly
Phrase
Tender
Gentle
Females
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
Hope
Government
Change
Language
Big
Translation
Hope And Change
Phrase
Only
Wit
Fat
There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.
Jeff Bridges
Truth
War
Me
You
Argument
Living
Other
Our
Statement
Ancient
Would
Would-Be
Phrase
Point
Could
Point Of View
Feels
Particular
Like
Call
Understand
None
Up
Person
Get
Us
Really
View
Appreciate
I'm trying to make sure that I get to my 0-2, 1-2 counts. That's really how I would rather phrase it: I'm trying to make sure that I can drive the count into my favor.
Max Scherzer
Drive
Favor
I Can
Would
Phrase
Rather
Count
Counts
Make
Sure
How
Get
Trying
Really
If I see a phrase that strikes me as ugly, I'll delete it. Or, if I find a way to say something a bit more freshly than it was expressed originally, I'll do it. Ultimately, you want to try to leave behind the best possible paragraph or sentence.
Tim O'Brien
Best
Me
You
Ugly
Try
Strikes
Way
Say
Bit
I See
Possible
Paragraph
Find
Phrase
See
Delete
Something
More
Leave
Ultimately
Than
Behind
Want
Sentence
Expressed
Originally
Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.
Rush Limbaugh
Government
You
People
Better
Impossible
Obama
Obamacare
Phrase
More
Take
Exchanges
He
Sooner
Making
Repeal
However
Covered
Get
Want
Wants
Meaning
Many
Away
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
Robert Kiyosaki
People
Value
Few
Intrinsic
Phrase
About
Parrot
Know
Talking
Stocks
Famous
While
Really
Means
Warren
Warren Buffett
Many
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