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Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.
Dolores del Rio
World
Rest
Else
No-One
Pictures
Talks
Narrow
Motion
Motion Pictures
Anything
Anything Else
Place
Hollywood
Far
Far Away
Away
Thinks
I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place.
Domhnall Gleeson
Bit
Over
Place
Little
Little Bit
The purpose of the E.U. Withdrawal Bill is in any event not to decide the terms of Brexit but to ensure that it can take place smoothly and that legal continuity, which is essential for businesses, is maintained. There is not a single MP who does not agree that getting the bill on the statute book is essential for us all.
Dominic Grieve
Legal
Book
Single
Ensure
Purpose
Take
Maintained
Terms
Withdrawal
Does
Smoothly
Continuity
Any
Getting
Essential
Decide
Place
Which
Us
Bill
Brexit
Who
Businesses
Agree
Event
I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.
Dominique Moceanu
Eyes
Dark
School
Hair
Feeling
Worry
Kid
Classes
About
Brown
Gym
Small
Haircut
Bowl
Always
Huge
Very
Tiniest
Being
Place
Petite
Street
Awkward
If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
Don Cheadle
You
People
Country
Think
Kids
Heads
Around
Understand
Africa
Place
Them
Then
Flies
I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).
Don Cheadle
Time
You
Though
Favorite
TV
Scariest
Because
Affords
Place
Theater
Prefer
Film
Amount
There were about 400 heads of state from countries all over the world. I walked out and played 'Hotel California,' and everybody in the place gave me a standing ovation, and half of those countries don't even speak English.
Don Felder
Me
Speak
World
Half
Everybody
Gave
State
Those
Out
About
Hotel
Ovation
Countries
Over
Heads
California
Were
Walked
Place
Standing
English
Even
Played
The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.
Don Fraser
Trouble
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Having
How
Up
Gets
Often
Place
Filled
I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.
Don McCullin
You
Dyslexic
Fight
School
Bad
Constant
Pretty
Park
Beaten
Had
Left
Up
Uneducated
Just
Where
Grew
Place
Which
Violence
I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.
Don Nickles
World
Think
States
Invest
Greatest
Still
Happen
Place
United
United States
In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.
Don Winslow
You
First
See
Trip
Kitsch
Onscreen
Hayek
Had
Head
Ideas
First Place
Doing
Surreal
Loud
Place
Little
Then
Taylor
Your
Bright
Now
Watch
Filming
As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it.
Don Winslow
Love
Time
You
Fall
Spend
About
More
Physically
Mentally
Write
Writer
Want
Either
Place
If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in sight, a shack with a pot-belly stove and some tea.
Donal Logue
You
Happy
Stove
Wind
Tea
Think
Say
Sight
Shack
Some
Someone
Nobody
Pole
Said
Howling
South
Place
Plane
Near
I'm drawn to silhouettes because of their emblematic rather than their illustrational quality. I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place.
Donald Baechler
Quality
Pure
Become
Painting
Drawn
See
Rather
Take
Shapes
Allowing
Abstraction
Because
Than
Place
Them
Image
I didn't really have intentions of fighting in MMA; it just kind of fell into place. Once I started fighting, though, I loved it, and I walked away from kickboxing right away.
Donald Cerrone
Fighting
Once
Kickboxing
Though
Kind
Fell
Walked
Just
Intentions
Just Kind
Loved
Place
Really
Away
Right
Right Away
Started
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.
Donald Davis
Hope
Time
Learning
Fight
Win
Win Or Lose
Lose
Live
Pleased
Foe
Dream
Could
Safe
Safely
Go
Discovered
Die
Any
Stories
Experimental
Story
Place
Anywhere
Created
I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek' without knowing anything about Kirk or Spock. All we needed to know was that it took place in the future.
Donald Faison
Future
Great
People
Think
Trek
Took
Way
About
Kirk
Spock
Know
Knowing
Great Way
Accepted
Without
Get
Stories
Anything
Story
Place
Mean
Origin
Star
Star Trek
Originally
Needed
What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.
Donald Johanson
You
Path
Tools
Back
Our
Evolutionary
About
Fact
Talking
Makes
Making
Go
Were
Years
Years Ago
Walking
Stone
Upright
Six
Human
Depends
Place
Us
Million
Designing
Million Years
I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?
Donald Kagan
Time
You
Ought
See
About
True
Because
Always
Question
Historian
Same
Anybody
Different
Place
Ask
Really
Different Place
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan
Ignorance
World
Confusion
Past
Roman Empire
About
Between
Empire
Concept
Reveal
America
Current
Any
Roman
Anything
In The Past
Place
Meaning
Meaning Of
Reasonable
Comparison
Comparisons
Children need to have a home. I don't mean a physical four walls and a room. There needs to be an emotional and spiritual and loving place in life. That's what a family is.
Donald Wuerl
Life
Home
Needs
Family
Spiritual
Walls
Physical
Emotional
Children
Place
Loving
Mean
Room
Four
Need
Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.
Donatella Versace
Fashion
Needs
Creative
London
Most
Fresh
Blood
Place
Due process policies such as tenure are put in place to protect good teachers from being fired without cause. They aren't there to protect 'bad' teachers.
Donna Brazile
Good
Cause
Bad
Good Teachers
Fired
Put
Tenure
Protect
Policies
Without
Due
Being
Process
Place
Teachers
The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.
Donna Langley
World
Think
More
Another
Than
Common
Place
Might
Large
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.
Donnie Yen
Art
Director
Action
Hong Kong
Cinematic
Out
He
Takes
Over
Feels
Particularly
Himself
Kong
Camera
His
Effect
Decades
Craft
Where
Place
Team
Choreographer
Choreography
Actually
Bring
I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.'
Donovan
Strange
Sometimes
Dance
Guitarist
Girl
Stronger
Say
Strings
Says
Okay
Guys
Nails
Over
Built
Yeah
Were
Up
Salon
Get
Done
Place
Younger
Then
Plastic
Now
Four
Need
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